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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Well, here’s the deal: I don’t know that these
are collect calls – the recording, at least the part of it one can hear –
doesn’t say anything about it being a collect call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>With the first two calls yesterday, there was the name of a cell
phone company, but the rest of the calls have had people’s names &
numbers. Of course, the unscrupulous can manipulate what shows up in
Caller ID, so who knows if what’s showing up is accurate? If
accurate, the area codes match up with appropriate prefixes, and two of the
calls have originated from landlines with the other four being cell phones, at
least according to what I was able to find online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Saundra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Art Deco<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Vision 2020<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Serious Question: Weird Phone Calls?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Everyone needs to be careful
of this kind of scam. Accepting a collect call can sometimes cost huge
amounts of money, especially if the scam originates in the Virgin Islands, for
example, $25.00 just for connecting. The charge appears on your next
phone bill, and it takes a very major hassle to get the charges reversed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I hope the Saundra's MIA
becomes un-MIA very soon.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Saundra, is there a Caller Id
with these calls? In my experience, collect calls have the Caller Id of a
legitimate phone company in the name slot.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>W.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm"
title="v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">Saundra Lund</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Saturday, March 20,
2010 8:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [Vision2020] Serious
Question: Weird Phone Calls?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone else been getting weird phone calls
recently? Before anyone<br>
makes any snarky answers, please understand that this is a very, very<br>
upsetting situation my family for reasons I'll touch on below.<br>
<br>
The calls start with what I think is the kind of recording a collect call<br>
would start with, but the recording never starts at the beginning, and the<br>
part where the person would say their name is unintelligible. The
recording<br>
then says something like, "To accept this call, press one; to send a<br>
voicemail, press 2" or something like that.<br>
<br>
We've gotten six of them in the last 24 hours or so.<br>
<br>
Now, the reason this is so upsetting to my family is because this week, I<br>
found out a much loved family member is quasi-MIA. Both of his phones
have<br>
been disconnected, but in the hope that he might somehow have email access,<br>
I've been trying to reach him that way, and on Tuesday afternoon, I sent him<br>
an email basically begging him to call me collect if needed.<br>
<br>
So, when the first call came yesterday afternoon, I probably made a HUGE<br>
mistake by pressing 1 to accept the call, which promptly went dead. The<br>
second call came immediately, and they guy wanted to know who I was (yeah,<br>
right!). The gist of what he told me was that he was calling back a phone<br>
number that had showed up as a missed call on his Caller ID. I explained<br>
that no one from my number (I didn't tell him what number he'd reached or my<br>
name, of course) had called him, and he sounded as confused as I was<br>
devastated that it wasn't my family member.<br>
<br>
We missed the third call early this AM, but the fourth came around 8:30 AM.<br>
Thinking it was my missing family member, my husband pressed 1 to accept the<br>
call, and it was a woman who said her husband had missed a call on his cell<br>
from our number, and she was calling to find out who had called. Again,
my<br>
hubby didn't divulge any info, but the missed call supposedly was from (208)<br>
991- and the last four digits of our phone number -- she said that she just<br>
hit the "return missed call" option or whatever, and that's how she
was<br>
connected to us.<br>
<br>
And, there have been two other calls like that today, but we're no longer<br>
pressing 1 to accept the calls because this is just too weird and I'm now<br>
suspicious that I've gotten us involved in some scam :-( I can only
hope<br>
that if my missing family member is able to call collect that we'll be able<br>
to tell the difference between that collect call and these other mysterious<br>
ones :-(<br>
<br>
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? I tried searching
Google<br>
& found a lot of scams, including collect calls originating from jails, but<br>
nothing quite like this.<br>
<br>
Of course this has to happen on a weekend when Verizon isn't available . . .<br>
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Saundra Lund<br>
Moscow, ID<br>
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.
Every<br>
individual makes a difference.<br>
~ Jane Goodall<br>
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