I got home from work last night around 10:30. I ran in the house to change quick and ran back out to go to FH's. At that time, I didn't see anything on the ledge between the screen door and the wooden front door.
When I got home just now, at almost 3am, there was an envelope there. It's addressed to some guy who doesn't live here, but with my address and with someone else's return address in Brooklyn on it. It's filled out as if someone was going to mail it and just didn't stamp it and delivered it by hand instead.
Since the person it's addressed to doesn't live here, and it's not technically mail and therefore not a felony, I opened it. Inside is a single sheet of looseleaf with a note, dated today. It says
'Hi Liam,
I stopped by your place today to check in with you. I hope you're doing well.
Please contact me, or Mom and Dad. They've been trying to call you for 3 weeks and haven't been able to reach you, so they're understandably worried.
If you need anything, let me know. I figured maybe you lost your phone or something, my cell # is 631XXX-XXXX
Peace,
Colin'
What would you do? Would you call the number to tell him his brother isn't here? Would you write him back? Would you ignore it?
My dilemma is that I'm nosy and I'm also concerned that if this kid is legit looking for his brother, he's barking up the wrong tree. I've lived here for 3 years and never heard of this person before and I get mail for past tenants all the time to this day. I'm going to check with the tenants upstairs to see if they know these people but they're from Rhode Island, so I doubt it.
But then, and I don't know if this is just because law school has made me ultra suspicious of people and their motives, but could it be some kind of scam? Like if I call this number, am I going to get ****** into something I don't want to be involved in, like some kind of fraud?
Both instincts kind of hit me at the same time and I'm not sure which one to listen to. Thanks if you read all of this.
UPDATE (HAHA, like Unsolved Mysteries when the creepy host used to say UPDATE)
I txtd my upstairs neighbor and he said he knew Liam, the guy who's 'missing' so I spoke with him and gave him the letter. He said he was casual friends with this guy from college and Liam crashed in his apartment for a couple of weeks in July but he hasn't heard from him in about a month. He also said he was kind of an eccentric guy so it's not totally suprising that he'd be unreachable. So I guess that's how his family got this address.
I hope the guy's okay.
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