yes, some sort of recording. luckily for me, I have a VERIZON home phone with unlimited all-across-america calling plan, and it doesn't cost me a dime. It must've automaic-dialed me at 9:06 a.m. virginia to NY but when it got my answering maching picking it up there was no hint of a message. I dialed it back 1/2 hour later and it just played music. Then I dialed it back and times it for over 5 minutes. My only guess is that someone has an investment in the amount of phone calls received by the company or someone has a percentage of stick in the company and gets money off of the amount of callers USING that particular phone company's connection. I don't know, but about 4 yrs ago I was stuck paying a phone bill for some jamaican lines who baited me into calling back. Once burned, twice learned.