FYI: I had a message on my land line about a potential charge from
Amazon. The message was cut off, but the question was whether I had made a
charge of a certain amount. If I had, ignore the call, but if not, call
them back and they gave a number to call. As the message was cut off, I
thought I would call.
When I called, I spoke to a man with broken English. He answered the phone
as Amazon, but there was a lot of noise in the background. I asked about
this and he said that there was no noise. I smelled a rat, so I asked
where he was located? He said Washington, DC and gave an
unintelligible address. I asked again and still could not understand the
address. That all sounded very suspicious to me and I asked for his name,
at which point he hung up.
I then called Amazon customer support to see what they would say? I was
told that they do not call when there is a question like this, but send an
e-mail message. They have a department that looks into these things, so I
gave them the number that I was told to call and the number that was
registered in my VM as the call the number came from.
The likelihood that anyone else in the neighborhood got a call like this is
slim, but I thought I would share my experience. I will call the Takoma
Park Police and report this, as well.
Milford
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Milford H. Sprecher
525 Albany Ave.
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-830-2198
