He called me a couple of nights ago and I was already on Amazon, so did similar with him. He isn't too bright, because he called me last week and I did the same thing with him, but this time he swore at me before hanging up.
I've also been getting a lot of emails from banks reporting that "my account has been blocked ", but I have never done business with all of these banks.
Then there are the email questionaires supposedly from Walmart, Kols, Amazon, etc. but they aren't. I'm even getting them saying that they are from "Spectrum", my internet provider. What jerks. They say that my account is blocked, but I'm watching TV and using the internet just fine.
For all of these, look closely at the sender's email address at the very top of your screen. The big companies have the sender's name followed by the actual email address business name followed by .com. Frequently what I'm seeing is that they have "Walmart" or some other business that they claim to be in parenthesis, followed by their actual email address like Walmart"
Joetech@carolina.rr.com. The real Walmart email address ends with Walmart.com and usually begins with the sender's name.
The questionaires seem to all be coming from an email address that ends with .DE .I believe that this is Denmark, but they are using several email addresses that end in .DE.
The one that I got for Koles yesterday had "K.O.L.E.S" just like this in the email address, followed by their email ID and it ended in .DE.
I've been getting so many phone calls that are scams lately that I bought a cordless phone system that allows me to push a button to block the caller. There are almost 300 blocked phone numbers in it so far. Every time someone calls and tries a scam on me I just push the button, and then they have to use a different phone number next time. After a few attempts, they run out of numbers. Caller ID is necessary now, because the Pakistanis have figured out how to steel phone numbers. If you ever get a call from a company name, but they tell you they are with a different company when you answer, it's a scam call from them. Blocking the number isn't a good idea if you do business with that company that displays on the phone, but it is obvious that they are not who they say they are.
I may have to go back to putting the FAX answer tones in the beginning of my answer message on the machine. Their robot hears the FAX answer tones, hangs up, and removes your phone number from it's list. You just have to tell everyone who might want to call you to "Wait for the tones to end and then leave a message.
I once had a little audio player with the FAX answer tones on it and I could push a button to play it into the phone, but it broke. Then I found the FAX answer tone on the internet by Googling "FAX Answer Tone", saved it to my PC,. Then I played it into my phone at the beginning of my answering machine message.
So, several ways to deal with scammers. I hope they will be of help. My phone has become quite silent since I started blocking their calls phone number by phone number. My new phone does not have the FAX machine tones in the message, yet. If they get around the blocked numbers too often, I may have to resort to it though.
Charley