Just called and left a message - It's a Merril-Lynch advisor.

Got an voice mail from some guy named Greg and he asked me to call them at 800-732-2747
These calls are from Merril-Lynch Fraud. Worth picking up or calling back!

received a solicitated call

I got a message from them saying they were checking on possible fraudulent activity on my card, asked me to call back at (800) 732-2747. When I did, the lady on the phone had a funny accent and the first thing she asked was my card number. It just didn't sound like ML to me, so I called Merrill on their (800) MERRILL number and the original call turned out to be legitimate after all. You can't be too careful these days, though!

It's Merrill Lynch's wonderful fraud detection system calling. My card had a $0.68 test charge placed on it so they immediately blocked the card. Then there were $500 and $1500 attempts to buy airline tickets, they report. Had there not been that stupid test charge I might not have noticed an extra couple grand missing.