{"id":1455,"date":"2021-05-12T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/someone-has-hijacked-my-amazon-account-but-i-cant-get-into-it\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T05:00:28","slug":"someone-has-hijacked-my-amazon-account-but-i-cant-get-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/someone-has-hijacked-my-amazon-account-but-i-cant-get-into-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone has hijacked my Amazon account but I can\u2019t get into it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems rogue sellers have used it to generate fake reviews <\/p>\n<p><strong>I received a parcel from Amazon, a website I haven\u2019t used for years. Several emails confirmed an order of three items, announced two-step verification on my account and warned a sign-in from an iPhone in Illinois had been detected. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The next day an email thanked me for joining Amazon Prime. Since then I have had other emails showing semi-literate five-star reviews of the products. My bank confirmed no money has been debited. But you can\u2019t contact Amazon without an account, and I can no longer access mine. I\u2019ve now received emails telling me I\u2019ve ordered a catflap but my payment has been declined.<br \/><\/strong><em><strong>FS, Brighton<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/may\/12\/someone-has-hijacked-my-amazon-account-but-i-cant-get-into-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/15f3b35e08aa1889e500be75a8f3cdceef877181\/0_278_5400_3240\/master\/5400.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0c08bc7a1f8692768a73cc408149a22a\" title=\"Someone has hijacked my Amazon account but I can\u2019t get into it\" \/>It seems rogue sellers have used it to generate fake reviews<br \/>\nI received a parcel from Amazon, a website I haven\u2019t used for years. Several emails confirmed an order of three items, announced two-step verification on my account and warned a sign-in from an iPhone in Illinois had been detected.<br \/>\nThe next day an email thanked me for joining Amazon Prime. Since then I have had other emails showing semi-literate five-star reviews of the products. My bank confirmed no money has been debited. But you can\u2019t contact Amazon without an account, and I can no longer access mine. I\u2019ve now received emails telling me I\u2019ve ordered a catflap but my payment has been declined.FS, Brighton Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems rogue sellers have used it to generate fake reviews I received a parcel from Amazon, a website I haven\u2019t used for years. Several emails confirmed an order of three items, announced two-step verification on my account and warned a sign-in from an iPhone in Illinois had been detected. The next day an email &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/someone-has-hijacked-my-amazon-account-but-i-cant-get-into-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone has hijacked my Amazon account but I can\u2019t get into it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}