I received a call from this number last night at 1 am. the recording said that it was a collect call from a Collect call from an inmate at the St Louis corrections institute, they gave a foreign name an I just hung up.
It is a scam. St Louis area code is 314 this one was 718.
This is not a scam.. it is in fact from a correctional facility. It is a 3rd party calling company the correctional facilities use for inmates to call out to ppl. They want you to set up a prepaid account so these inmates can call you whenever they want if you answer the phone. I know this because my soon to be exhusband is in jail and has been for 6 weeks now - he calls over and over and over from this # to my phone... everytime the # calls and you do not answer it leaves a voicemail message and when you do answer it is an automated message trying to get you to set up the prepaid account... IT IS NOT A SCAM!! It is a central calling location - a set # used for these outgoing calls.. the # is not specific for a certain correctional facility as some have posted.. they can be in any facility in the US and the facility uses this specific company for their inmate collect call phones.. there are many many many companies that do this for correctional facilities all over the US.. I know of 4 different companies from 4 different correctional facilities out of TX.. so if you dont want to talk to them.. just ignore or block the call... as i have done..