Immediately I get text back claiming that it is FedEx, and asking if I am home.
This does not seem right, and it is kind of creepy.
First, I have never had FedEx try to call me or ask if I am home for a delivery. They either leave the item or leave a note saying they tried to deliver.
Secondly, I am not expecting any deliveries. I haven't ordered anything. I also assume that anyone who was sending something so valuable that it needed a signature would have told me to expect it.
So I did a Google search of the phone number. If it is legitimately Federal Express trying to contact me then it should be registered to them. Nope. Comes up as a mobile phone.
No way am I going to answer that text. You can freaking wonder whether I am at home or not. If it is really FedEx then they can leave the note that I missed my package.
I did, however, text my friend (and neighbor) who lives down the street to ask her to keep an eye on my house if she was home. Coincidentally, my neighbor across the street also stopped into work, and I told her about the weird call as well.
You might be wondering why I got so freaked out over what appears to be either an innocent call or a phishing scam.
I was away on vacation last week, but I had various people stopping by the house to take care of the cats, and I had told my friend down the street that I would be away, just in case anything happened. I was going to be gone during Halloween and Mischief Night -- better to be safe than sorry, in my opinion.
On Sunday, when I was home again, I noticed that a couple of the pumpkins I had left out as decorations were missing. I didn't think anything of it. A storm had blown through while I was gone, and they were just foam pumpkins, so I assumed they had just blown away. It was a bummer, but not a tragic loss.
On Monday, as I was getting ready to leave for work, I saw my friend down the street. We stopped to chat and she told me that someone had broken into the house across the street from mine while I was on vacation. Apparently they smashed a window in the middle of the day, brazen as anything. The police had come around asking if anyone had seen or heard anything.
Now that you have the whole back-story, you can understand how getting a random message at work asking if I am at home might have freaked me out a bit. For all I knew this person was sitting outside of my house, casing the place. I think they would be mighty disappointed though, unless they are in the market for a big-ass, heavy as hell, standard television that won't let you watch many television shows.
My house is just fine, in case you are wondering. I'm home now, and if anyone starts acting creepy outside my house I will be calling the police.
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