Marks & Spencer Phone Call - Spam?
8.30 this morning my wife answered the phone - "Mark & Spencer here, may we speak to your husband?" No reason given. I pick up the phone (bleary-eyed having been still asleep). Female Indian voice - "Am I speaking with Mr xxx" Yes. "Can you confirm that your postcode is xxx yyy?" Erm, yes. "and can you confirm your house number is zz?" A puzzled yes. Before I could even begin to ask why, she hung up.
OK, if I had had my wits about me and not just staggered out of bed, I would have handled it differently but what have 'they' gained? They had my phone number, address, post code and name - yes they now know it for sure but aren't there fairly readily available means of some sort of reverse look-up where the name and address for a particular phone number can be found? Puzzled.
PS - a 1471 call gave the number as 0208 859 3636.
Last edited by Lyneham Lad; 31st Oct 2018 at 10:08.
Reason: PS added.