HI Milford and everyone else - yes, I've gotten those calls as well...I
usually will look at my Amazon orders OR a credit card to see if such a
"fake purchase" has been made - I think that the Amazon person is right -
they would email and not randomly call...
I think my wish is that everyone who puts energy into scamming would just
decide to do good...imagine what this world would be like
john seelke
On Sat, 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
