Called at 11.45 Pm Friday Feb.20 saying that the had a credit card call for my name. I did not respond and hung up .Immediatly the phone rang again I just let it ring.
received a call at 4am from this phone number claiming that he was the operator and had a "very important call" from a person w/ a very common name but that i actually have as a friend. fearing that something was really wrong, i agreed to accept the charges, but then he asked for my credit card number. i asked if this was a collect call and then why could he not just put the call through as this is the norm -- then the guy told me to disregard and hung up. i tried to call the number back and it was busy -- but a few seconds later the guy called again w/ the "very important call" routine and hung up on me again. at this point, i was awake and i called the operator to ask about this and she told me not to ever give out my credit card info b/c this is not the norm for collect calling, as they could just put the call through and charge it to your phone number, as i'd thought.