Called yesterday. I think this might be that scam prisoners run where they ask you to pick up a collect call but really you are giving them some kind of permission to make long distance charges to your phone #. They've called before but I didn't pick up this time.

call from prison. one of those prison scams........beware

Got call from 773-847-9232 8:06 pm 5/15/08,just happened that we did not ans.caller ID said Prison.did not talk to ans machine. We are on do not call list and have an unlisted number, why are they calling us???

Recieved three collect prison calls from 773-847-9231, 773-650-9834, and 773-890-9794. I did not accept these calls.

We keep receiving calls from this number (773-847-9032) and 773-847-9231, 773-847-8170, 773-890-9495, 773-847-9428. All have the caller id label of "PRISON". The automated message is in Spanish (I don't speak Spanish) and at some point English is hastily inserted,  "This is an emergency contact number.  For English, press zero and hold."

We are on the Do Not Call list ? so that doesn?t help.
Any ideas?

Call came at 8:15A.  Caller ID ominously reads "prison." I didn't pick up and the caller did not leave a message.  Though this call came from within my area code, I do not know anyone who is actually in a brick and mortar prison not of their own making. Hmmm . . .

CALL CAME IN mONDAY AFTERNOON 1-773-847-9231 - DID NOT LEAVE MESSAGE. DID NOT ANSWER. CALLED BACK, BUT NO INCOMING CALLS ALLOWED. SAID "PRISON" ON CALLER ID.

call came in on Sunday afternoon, caller ID read "Prison", didn't leave message, am on no call list, I will not pick up unidentified callers  I do not know anyone in the Chicago area