So, I have been a regular Amazon customer and I have been placing orders almost every day or every other day. Recently, I ordered some stickers for my baby girl that I received as estimated. Everything was fine. Then a couple of days later, I was sitting in a gathering with some people and we were talking and discussing something very important. All of a sudden I received this phone call from someone saying,
“Hi, I am calling from Amazon and you have just received an order like 2 days ago. We have delivered the order and received the payment as well but since the delivery agent didn’t collect the OTP from you, we are unable to feed the order status in our system. Could you please check your SMS Inbox or WhatsApp right now for an OTP from Amazon?”
I was like, ok, let me see. And I found that there was an OTP received on both my inbox and WhatsApp. In a haste, I almost provided the scammer with the OTP but I stopped and asked him, “Who are you? And what was the order, could you tell me?” - he was like, I am a customer support agent from Amazon and we do not know what the order usually is. This was it! I said ok, I got it and I will cross-check with the official customer support of Amazon and will provide them with this OTP if needed.
Later on, I figured out that this OTP was a Sign-In attempt to my Amazon Account.
I would like to leave this here for anybody who may find this useful. Please do not share codes with any random person via SMS, WhatsApp or Call.
Stay safe!