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I had issues accessing my Amazon Prime App on my TV. I googled Amazon Prime TV App and (888)280-4331 is the number that came up. I called and it seemed legit. The young man stated someone else was using my app that was why only one of my TV's were able to connect to the app. He also stayed someone setup 2 business accounts associated with my account. Also, he stated numerous Apple products were ordered from the accounts. I advised I do not have any business let alone 2 businesses. He told me he was transferring me to a Federal Trade Commission officer. When I spoke with the so called officer, I asked him to prove he was a Federal Trade Commission officer and he emailed me a badge that looked legit and a report that has the Federal Trade Commission stamp in the background. I still was not convinced so he had a boss call me and the Federal Trade Commission name and phone number came across my phone as if he was calling me back. The Federal Trade Commission investigator told me I had 9 bank accounts under my name and $253,000.00 was shipped out of the country under my name and there was money laundering going on. He told me I had 2 options I could do a public prosecution and I would be arrested and booked and I would have to hire an attorney or, if I worked with them they would help me get through the process and prove to the courts that it was not myself that transfered the money out of the country. I still was not sure this was true so, he had a Police officer from Ohio call me and it came across my phone that I was receiving a call from and specific county sheriff's office in Ohio ( a real number and a real police department). They talked me into taking my money out of my bank account and purchased 1500.00 in GOBANK cards. They told me the hackers had my Social security number and my drivers license number and now my numbers needed to be changed. They were going to shut my bank account down and go through my transactions to prove I had not transferred any money. The kicker is they talked me into snapping a picture of the cards and my receipts and then they stole that money. When I confronted them I was told that I would be getting my money right back once my social security number was changed and they were helping me secure my funds. Also because my 401K was associated with my social security number as well, I cashed it out and they had me purchase Bitcoin. I am older and close to 60 years old and had no clue what either the cards were or anything about Bitcoin. They sent my a QR code and not knowing it the machine took my money and put it into their account via the QR code. I tried to ask all the questions and verify all I could think of, but this is a huge organization from people pretending to be Amazon to other people pretending to be the Federal Trade Commission and others pretending to be police officers. I filed complaints with the FBI through IC3.GOV and the Federal Trade Commission (the real one), I filed a police report and froze my social security number but I am sick about loosing everything I had through a scam.