In addition to my earlier post, my source told me that all State of Washington service offices use a number scrambler for all outgoing calls so that people may not call back the original caller and harrass them. A different number is scrambled each time an outgoing call is made, so why are so many people getting this 425-513-0800 number?
I am an employer and this number comes up on my caller ID whenever some is calling to verify employment for state assistants. I have done the investigation in it and it just a general number that a governmental office uses. It could be for anything :) NO WORRIES, if it was anything that was alarming you would have received something in writing. No government office is going to contact you by phone unless they have made attempts to mail something again if it was something to worry about.
Answer me a couple of questions: Why would an employment verification call come at 8:30 at night? Why have a phone number that says it is disconnected when called back? I have had the same cell phone number for the last five years with no such incidence. I am certainly not on any kind of state assistance that would require verification of my employment; besides, even if that were the case, wouldn't MY employer be called for verification?
In my case, it was an automated call from my daughter's school district to let me know that apparently she forgot to put the money I gave her into her meal account.
All of you are partly right in where this number is coming from. It comes up as SOW-DIS-TSD on the caller ID. I have actually talked to the person who calls me from this number. It happens to be my daughters college and I can tell you this is it a generic number that is assigned to SOW (Sate of Washington) so that government agencies can call you without long distance charges, no matter where they are located in Washington State.