Amazon is the largest e-commerce platform in the world, with over 300 million active customers around the world. Given the huge number of users, Amazon takes various measures to prevent abuse of its customer-friendly policies by blocking suspicious users.

If you have a Prime account with Amazon, you need to be on high alert this week. The online retailer is about to kickstart two days of deals. That's clearly great for bargain hunters, but it's also a prime time to be scammed.

Given how long I've been working for a tech website, it's embarrassing to admit my card was recently used for a fraudulent purchase on Amazon. Here's what happened, how I fixed it quickly, and what you can learn from my slip-up. One day as I finished ...

Last week, July 12 and 13 were -- together -- Prime Day. Two days later, someone used Amazon to try to defraud our account. Presumably, the crook assumed Amazon was going to be showing up on so many financial accounts this week that Prime Day would provide ...