[Vision2020] Serious Question: Weird Phone Calls?

[lfalen]

I have not received this kind of call. Last week I did receive a call from Verizon saying that some one had called in and changed my address to somewhere in California.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Saundra Lund" v2020 at ssl.fastmail.fm
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:30:51 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Serious Question:  Weird Phone Calls?

> Has anyone else been getting weird phone calls recently?  Before anyone
> makes any snarky answers, please understand that this is a very, very
> upsetting situation my family for reasons I'll touch on below.
> 
> The calls start with what I think is the kind of recording a collect call
> would start with, but the recording never starts at the beginning, and the
> part where the person would say their name is unintelligible.  The recording
> then says something like, "To accept this call, press one; to send a
> voicemail, press 2" or something like that.
> 
> We've gotten six of them in the last 24 hours or so.
> 
> Now, the reason this is so upsetting to my family is because this week, I
> found out a much loved family member is quasi-MIA.  Both of his phones have
> been disconnected, but in the hope that he might somehow have email access,
> I've been trying to reach him that way, and on Tuesday afternoon, I sent him
> an email basically begging him to call me collect if needed.
> 
> So, when the first call came yesterday afternoon, I probably made a HUGE
> mistake by pressing 1 to accept the call, which promptly went dead.  The
> second call came immediately, and they guy wanted to know who I was (yeah,
> right!).  The gist of what he told me was that he was calling back a phone
> number that had showed up as a missed call on his Caller ID.  I explained
> that no one from my number (I didn't tell him what number he'd reached or my
> name, of course) had called him, and he sounded as confused as I was
> devastated that it wasn't my family member.
> 
> We missed the third call early this AM, but the fourth came around 8:30 AM.
> Thinking it was my missing family member, my husband pressed 1 to accept the
> call, and it was a woman who said her husband had missed a call on his cell
> from our number, and she was calling to find out who had called.  Again, my
> hubby didn't divulge any info, but the missed call supposedly was from (208)
> 991- and the last four digits of our phone number -- she said that she just
> hit the "return missed call" option or whatever, and that's how she was
> connected to us.
> 
> And, there have been two other calls like that today, but we're no longer
> pressing 1 to accept the calls because this is just too weird and I'm now
> suspicious that I've gotten us involved in some scam  :-(  I can only hope
> that if my missing family member is able to call collect that we'll be able
> to tell the difference between that collect call and these other mysterious
> ones  :-(
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?  I tried searching Google
> & found a lot of scams, including collect calls originating from jails, but
> nothing quite like this.
> 
> Of course this has to happen on a weekend when Verizon isn't available . . .
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
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> ~ Jane Goodall
> 
> 
> 
> 
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