I personally greatly appreciate this warning! I believe many will take the time to read what you wrote and if they don't, then it's their loss. My mother was scammed twice... once for $22k and then, $5k.
I am 48 years old (will be moving to the Villages with my older husband when I retire in 5 years). This same thing happened to my husband and he was almost taken by it and I have received crazy emails appearing to be legitimate. The best advice is when an email is received that appears legitimate, do NOT hit reply to that email or call the number listed in that email. Instead, do a Google search and find the 1-800 number to the company (in this case Amazon) and go through them.
When people pray on the elderly, it is especially disgusting to me and I do hope that there is a Hell and a very special place there for vile scammers!
I am so glad that even though you were highly inconvenienced and your laptop was wiped clean, you did not lose your money
There was a program on television that I watched concerning the billion dollar industry of scamming.
Be careful everyone!!
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