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Old 04-06-2013, 09:05 AM
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NOT the gramma-granpa scam but a week ago or so around 10:30 at night. Phone rings, with "unavailable phone #" listed. I've begun to answer these because sometimes it's actually a person needing to speak with us. Anyway, I answered and the other party (a woman) said "This is your neighbor _____, my husband is gone and we're out of toilet paper".... and maybe she said some other items with this. I do have one neighbor by that name so I looked out at their house but didn't see any lights on so I asked her "what's your husband's name?" The person told me a name but it wasn't the husband's of my neighbor SOOO I told her we don't have neighbor's by those names and I hung up on her. NOT sure if they were dialing #'s to see if people were gone at certain addresses so they could "case" the place. BUT this could be something happening here as well.