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My house phone just rang (I live in Sterling Heights MI), the phone number from Charlotte, North Carolina 980-278-1864, and a man was stating that he was at a Detroit Police Station after a car accident. He kept calling me “Ma”. The voice sounded shaken, so I asked if this was Nick, one of my other son’s. He said, "Do I sound that bad Ma, this is Kyle”. My stepson lives in Detroit and his name is Kyle. However, he is 31 years old and has never called me Ma or Mom. He has introduced me as his bonus mom but calls me by my name ****. And he doesn’t call our landline; he calls his Dad or my on our cellphones. One of our children when young started having seizures. We will never get rid of that landline phone because if you need an ambulance, it’s right there on the wall still. Occasionally, we misplace our cellphone so our family thought it would be safer to keep the landline. It was clear then that this was a scam. I’m sure his next statement would have been to ask for money, but I hung up beforehand. It did shake me up a bit and now I’m just angry that this scammer is out there probably upsetting others too. Not everyone is knowledgeable about this type of scam.