When you see that 25% of all USA TraceBack requests involve fraudulent Amazon calls, you have to wonder where these thieves come from.

We were contacted last week by one:

3:47 AM
Hello! My name is Ivan, I represent Effebot (Hong Kong address)
You were in contact with one of our managers before.
I would like to know your current top offers for the destinations listed below:
UK Mobile
UK Fixed
Germany Mobile
Germany Fixed
USA Amazon
Canada Amazon

8:01 AM
Hello Ivan. USA and CANADA Amazon? Define that please.

4:47 AM
USA and Canada routes for clean Amazon traffic

Excuse me? What? Clean Amazon traffic?

Effebot_VoIP Traffic
USA ROUTE FOR CLEAN TRAFFIC ⚡\u-497 ?
USA CC | CLI Fixed/Mobile 0,007 $
(Clean traffic, local ANI, IVR and DTMF, 6/6)

8:59 AM OUR "PROPOSED" ANSWER
Dear Ivan, obviously you are a thief, a crook, a fraud, and probably a person of "doubtful parentage". But we'll play the game with you; Please send your purchase order for USA & Canada Amazon, send a large deposit please, and please forgive us if we never turn up your route, retain your deposit, and report you back to the TraceBack Group. OK with you?

No answer received from Ivan!

When these thieves are blatantly advertising for VoIP traffic to the USA for their fraudulent Amazon calls, and calling it clean traffic, don’t you have to wonder what the hell they are thinking?

Let’s be clear: Any call that uses Amazon in its script, is fraudulent. Period. Any call that uses Amazon in its script, is not clean, it is thievery.

Prescott-Martini has been monitoring millions of USA robo calls, testing a new telecommunications fraud detection system based on Artificial Intelligence, and that will be announced before year-end. Here is a typical Amazon script that we have found in monitoring thousands of Amazon calls with our very advanced fraud call monitoring platform:

"Hello, this call is to inform you that a pre-authorized charge has been made to your account. To authorize this charge, please press 1 and stay on the line for the next agent.

"Hello, this is Amazon customer service, who am I talking with?"

Why, you may wonder, do these calls persist in the millions every month? Simple: It is the money, swindling thousands of gullible people world-wide, every month. That’s the bottom line, if there weren’t profit in it, these calls would not exist.

While Amazon calls are notorious as originating at India call centers, you read stories like this from the Los Angeles Times this week, and wonder….

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-11-01/i-was-a-slave-up-to-100-000-held-captive-by-chinese-cyber-criminals-in-cambodia