Just received a call from this number.It came up on my television screen. I never answer any calls that I'm not familiar with. No message left on my answering machine so assume that is not legitimate. It came up showing UTILITIES FL.
After reading the above notes on this number....I decided I might as well join the crowd....and say that they also called our landline number but left no message.
It's known as "Spoofing" - you put in a phony callback number in the system that will make that fake number appear on the caller ID. My old cell phone was being used as a spoofed number before - they can even use yours!! It's NOT difficult to code for - I used to write outdial programs for a legitimate company - so that the company that we wrote the code for would have THEIR number appear in the caller ID instead of the 3rd party.
You report spoofed calls at fcc.gov - it's highly illegal to spoof a number - but not sure how they manage to track/find them with a fake #.
Yeah, most of these "Unrecognized" numbers are just scams.
If they tell me "We'll turn off your water." I say "Good luck with that" (I have a private well)
If they tell me the power will be shut off, I offer to fax them the last payment info (Pertinent info only, amount &date paid)
If they tell me they're sending the cops-- Well, you get the idea. I have an answer for nearly everything that they can dream up.