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Description

Was contacted by a person claiming to be named Peter from Amazon. He stated that someone had purchased $1,499.00 worth of merchandise on my debit card and he was wanting to help me get my money back. I was asked to install an program from teamviewer.com to my home computer so it would "show" me that the money had been retrieved and placed in my account with an additional 1500.00. The screen I was shown included the name of the bank that I use. I received a second call from a man claiming his name was Jayden who then said that they needed to retrieve the extra 1500 that was placed in my account. By the time I called the bank to confirm the money had been deposited, which it hadn't, they had withdrawn 2000.00

Dollars Lost

$2003

Targeted Person's Location

AL, USA- 35611

Scammer Information
Scammer location logo

Athens, AL- 35611

Mail logo

Unknown Email

Mobile logo

830-387-2993

Web logo

teamviewer.com

Scam Type

Online Purchase

Business name

Amazon

Date Reported

September 26, 2020

Scam ID

440447


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