Amazon account holders - check your subscriptions please

Agnar

I received an email saying my free trial to 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly had started to be followed by a monthly charge of £0.99

I have never requested this subscription / trial.

I thought the email was a scam trying to get me to click a link in the email that would redirect me to a fake Amazon account to capture my logon details. To be sure (& safe) I logged into Amazon through my usual browser bookmark to assure myself it was fake only to find to my horror that I really had a subscription to 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly!

Yes it's only £0.99 but what if the next scam took £100 / month or £1000?!

Goodness knows how many people haven't spotted this subscription being added to their account or assume it's a fake email and ignore it? Hopefully it's just me but if they manage to get a few thousand who don't notice...


Be warned, check your subscriptions on Amazon (Your Account > E-mail alerts, messages, and ads > Message centre OR Your Account > Subscriptions > Memberships & Subscriptions) if like me you buy a lot from Amazon the odd £0.99 will likely go unnoticed whilst the fraudulent folks behind this gradually skim our accounts for months / years.

I have reported this via email to Amazon as no one should be able to add a subscription / trial to our accounts that has not been requested. If Amazon's practices have changed to allow their traders to do this, then this needs to be stopped now.

DCFC79

You must have started a free trial or someone who has access to your account did it.

theonlywayisup

Be warned, check your subscriptions on Amazon

Be warned, check the details before you subscribe.

Merry Christmas.

forgotmyname

Oh no, shock horror......... I have subscribed to everything I subscribed to.

Same account for many years and a password so simple, if it took you more than 20 minutes you were not trying. Yet I have never had anything out of order with my account.

How can traders access your account to add subscriptions?
Sounds like you left your device logged in and someone ordered the item for you on your device.

[Deleted User]

Agnar wrote: »

I have reported this via email to Amazon as no one should be able to add a subscription / trial to our accounts that has not been requested. If Amazon's practices have changed to allow their traders to do this, then this needs to be stopped now.

Expect a terse reply from Amazon saying you ordered this subscription..

Not a scam..

pmduk

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Expect a terse reply from Amazon saying you ordered this subscription..

Knowing Amazon, they'll just be apologetic that the OP is unaware of his/her actions and ignored their confirmation email sent at the time of subscribing!