I posted the account of the fake-Amazon call in the hope Mudcatters would pass the word on to less-savvy friends and relatives. There are plenty of people, especially elderly people, who are being defrauded.

We have a mobile phone and a landline. There is nothing like a landline, with its clarity and lack of glitches, for calling up a loved one across the country and having a good, long yack, just as we used to do as teenagers.