Someone Bought a Fraudulent Gift Card With My Amazon Account: Here's What I Did

The writer of this article recently had a fraudulent purchase made on their Amazon Prime credit card, and wants to share their experience and the lessons that they learned from it.
They received an email notifying them that a charge of $250 ha d b ee nma d e t o t h e i rc a r d, an d a f t er in v es t i g a t in g, f o u n d t ha t a$ 250 Razer Gold digital gift card had been purchased from their wife’s Amazon account and sent to an unfamiliar email address.
The fraudster had been attempting to cover their tracks by flooding the account holder’s email inbox with confirmation messages and signing up for numerous university newsletters, hoping that they would not notice the Amazon confirmations.
The charge was eventually canceled, but the experience prompted the writer to strengthen their wife’s passwords and advocate for the use of password managers, alerts for credit card activity, and stronger security measures.
They also recommend using credit cards instead of debit cards online, as bank accounts can be harder to reclaim funds from in the event of fraudulent activity.

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