By Karin Price Mueller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on November 24, 2016 at 9:09 AM, updated November 26, 2016 at 11:46 AM
If you plan to shop on Amazon.com this holiday season, be warned.
There’s a new scam afoot, and the con artists are using Amazon to steal your money. Based on the number of complaints reported to Bamboozled from across the country in the past few months, the problem is widespread, if not rampant.
Amazon isn’t doing anything about it, according to shoppers who fell victim to the scam.
Given that we’re at the start of the busy holiday shopping season, one might think Amazon wants to warn its customers.
The retail giant is staying silent.
We’ve reported before about fake third-party sellers who lure buyers to leave Amazon’s site when it comes time for payment. Through untraceable wire transfers, the fraudsters take money for items they never deliver.
This time, the scammers are using Amazon gift cards to pull off the fraud.
And it seems to be working beautifully.
The dozens of complaints reported to Bamboozled share essentially the same story. And, the readers agree, Amazon hasn’t done a thing to help.
We reached out to Amazon about these cases and to ask what it’s doing to protect consumers as the holiday shopping season gets underway. It hasn’t responded to our inquiries.
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