I also got a call from this number 4/23/08. I figure that whomever it is must have gotten my information from a database. If you've used your number on-line in any way, Purchase job board etc. They could have gotten a hold to it and is validating if the number is correct. It's just a hunch, but it It has to be something close to that. And they could be up to no good. During times like these I think that it's very important to report incidents like these that occur. Could be some scammer. Terrorist or whatever.
This is pretty much what happened to me....phone rang 2 minutes ago...I answered...female voice with an accent (Spanish? Asian?) and I did not understand what they were saying....she repeated herself, and it SOUNDED like the last garbled word out of her mouth was my name...so I said "speaking"....then she hung up....
I just received a call on my cell from the same number @ 8:33 EST. Asian woman asked to speak with the moniker of my email. Since I had used that email moniker and the number on a couple of job boards I assumed it was a recruiter. The woman was very difficult to understand and the quality of the call was poor so I had to ask her to repeat herself a number of times. She asked me to spell my name, which I stupidly did. As soon as I did that she hung up. I called back and got the recording that the number is not in service.
I called my wife at home to let her know and she said that the number had called just recently but b/c she did not recognize the number she did not pick up.
Just to be on the safe side I am going to request copies of my credit report in the even that there is any attempts on identity theft.