My girlfriend and I each bought cell phones at the end of August to keep in touch while I was away at school. Since that time I have gotten a few (maybe 4) ‘wrong number’ calls. Each of these calls has been from my town of residence, however, and it is reasonable that they are actually people dialing the wrong number.
However, my girlfriend has just recently started receiving ‘wrong number’ calls; except they’re from overseas area codes with people speaking foreign languages. The first two occurred on 10 Jan 07. They happened nearly one after another. According to the displayed area codes the first originated from Lebanon and the second from Costa Rica. The first call she answered and understood nothing except the word “Pakistan”. The second went to the answering machine and again she couldn’t understand anything. The most recent calls were again one after another and occurred at 2:45 A.M. - sorry, I can’t tell you the area code at the moment.
After the first set of calls I asked her if she’d published her number on Facebook or anything like that. She hadn’t. I told her to phone our service provider, but they insisted there is nothing wrong or amiss. What does the SDMB think could be happening here? Why is my girlfriend receiving random overseas calls? Is something amiss?