Yes, a message left in our answering machine said that Amazon was checking on
suspicious activity regarding a charge and to please call. We checked our
Amazon account. Saw that there was no such charge. We ignored it.
Stephanie
Boston Ave
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 5, 2020, at 9:29 AM, Milford Sprecher <milford.sprecher@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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
