[Scan-DC] Off topic, I guess... possible cell phone scam?

[John Bacon]

Boy I guess it only happens in DC. I have never heard of this before. But if 
you have caller ID but when you look on you bill it doesnt give you the 
number. It says "INCOMMING CALL". But I would let you Cell company know 
about it so they can have and Idea of what is going on there system.

JOHN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug K." <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: [Scan-DC] Off topic, I guess... possible cell phone scam?


> All,
>
> Might be off topic, but it does come under the heading of 
> communications... and I figured that if anyone knows anything about it, 
> someone in this group will!
>
> My cousin and her husband have each received calls on their cell phones:
>
> "WHO IS THIS?"
>
> And then the caller proceeds to tell them that he lost his cell phone and 
> this is _his_ number and where and how did they get the phone, etc, etc, 
> and the caller is gonna find them and kick their @$$ mo-fo, etc, etc...
>
> I'm not sure what the point of this little exercise is, especially since 
> the cell phone records the incoming number, and what does this guy expect 
> them to do, say, "yeah, sure, it's your phone, come on over and I'll give 
> it back to you!"?
>
> My "cousin-in-law" (the husband) got one of these calls on Thanksgiving 
> day at our house - I haven't talked to him since then but he was going to 
> call V*rizon Wireless on Friday (http://verizoneatspoop.com/) and tell 
> them about this and give them the number - and also was going to call the 
> po-pos and tell them he had received death threats (for what that's 
> worth)...
>
> Has anyone else run into anything like this?
>
>
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