Not sure about that scam, but the one they are talking about in my local news is from local calls, and your own phone number. If you answer it, be sure to check your phone bill real careful, because that's all they need to put a charge on your bill. Used to be that they had to get you to respond to a question of some kind and then push a button. After you did this, you would be charged for agreeing to a monthly charge on something, and then when you protested it, they would either stop it from happening any more and keep what they already got from you, or they would argue with you saying that you agreed to this by pushing the button. So then you had to get the phone company involved and have them call up about the charge for you, and then they would play a recording of you agreeing to it, even if you didn't, the recording said you did. So then you had to cancel it, which might create another charge, or it might take a month or two to happen. Either way, you didn't get a refund because you agreed to it by pushing that button. I haven't heard that one in awhile, but it was real bad ten years ago.
