The phone rings. “Hello”. The guy starts be asking if I am [real name]. I agree. I was expecting a delivery, so I assumed it was that. Instead the buy starts in on a long song and dance about how wonderfully they have repaired my vacuum and I can come and get it. Only problem is my vacuum is find and in a closet. I saw our house cleaners use it yesterday.
What are they thinking? That I was so demented that I would believe that I could take the vacuum in for repairs and forget that I had done it. I cannot figure out where this was going but I suggested an anatomic impossibility and hung up.
Can anyone suggest where this was heading?
If you’re like me and live alone, your logic makes perfect sense, but for many/most people they are living with someone else who may have taken the vacuum to be fixed without you knowing,. While it’s easy to go and check to see if it’s where it’s suppose to be, you’d be surprised how many gullible people will think their spouse took it somewhere to be fixed and not bother to check the closet where it normally lives.
My guess is that if you had played along with this scam you would have found that if you paid them a small amount of money they would be happy to drop the vacuum off at your house. You give them your home address, your credit card number, expiration date, and CCV and, as they say, the rest is history. Hanging up was the right thing to do. Unfortunately, there are enough people who get suckered in and then live to regret it.