I'll have to check my bill b/c I called this number back thinking it was someone else. Little did I know. I'm grateful for posts like this. Scary nowadays.
Call received from 706 204 4358. I.D. box showed "Florida" although 706 is a Georgia exchange. I rejected the call and blocked it. In recent months, I have fallen victim to a scheme known as "telephone cloning". After reporting it to the FCC and state law enforcement, a call blocker was installed on my mobile. I reject any callers I do not know and add the numbers to the blocker.
"Whenever you dial a number from your cell phone, the ESN (electronic serial number) and MIN (mobile identification number) of your phone are transmitted to the network, identifying the cell phone dialed from and who to bill. Some people, who work in the way that computer hackers operate, can use a scanner to listen in to this transmission and capture the code. They can then use the information they gather to make calls that are then charged to the account of the phone number they have in effect "broken into."
After a persons number is compromised, the hackers then use the number to call other people whose numbers are then compromised. It creates a domino effect.
This number called me today. Didn't leave a message. I'm grateful for these reporting sites to warn me. I never call back an unknown number - if anyone has something legitimate to say, they would leave a message. A word of advice - I save these fake callers into my contact as something beginning with Z, like "Z-jerk #". This way it's saved but not cluttering my contact list since it's at the bottom and whenever they call again I know to ignore it.