Question about cell phone scams? Info appreciated.

Okay, the situation is this:

My roomate and I have one of those bundled internet/cellphone/land line
packages, so we share a cell phone plan for simplicity. The other
night, he was on his cell phone with someone for a couple of hours.
Come to find out later on that he had briefly chatted with a woman in a
chat room, and then called her up. I'm not one to judge people's
personal habits, but the thing that alarmed me was that this woman, old
enough to know better, had given him her number after just a couple of
minutes of chatting in the room. I may just be paranoid, but that
seemed odd and given all the phone scams you hear about where people
are ripped off for $50 a minute and what not, this drew a red flag for
me. The bill is in my name after all.

I ran the phone # through one of those reverse phone number finders on
the 'net, and the number came back tied to a cell phone service in
Washington. My question is, can one of those scams where they hit you
for thousands of dollars be perpetrated from a cell phone? And how
accurate are these reverse phone number finders which are telling me
that this is a cell phone # to begin with?

Thanks in advance.

On 15 Jul 2006 14:26:43 -0700, Rounder2006@hotmail.com wrote:

>Okay, the situation is this:
>
>My roomate and I have one of those bundled internet/cellphone/land line
>packages, so we share a cell phone plan for simplicity. The other
>night, he was on his cell phone with someone for a couple of hours.
>Come to find out later on that he had briefly chatted with a woman in a
>chat room, and then called her up. I'm not one to judge people's
>personal habits, but the thing that alarmed me was that this woman, old
>enough to know better, had given him her number after just a couple of
>minutes of chatting in the room. I may just be paranoid, but that
>seemed odd and given all the phone scams you hear about where people
>are ripped off for $50 a minute and what not, this drew a red flag for
>me. The bill is in my name after all.
>
>I ran the phone # through one of those reverse phone number finders on
>the 'net, and the number came back tied to a cell phone service in
>Washington. My question is, can one of those scams where they hit you
>for thousands of dollars be perpetrated from a cell phone? And how
>accurate are these reverse phone number finders which are telling me
>that this is a cell phone # to begin with?
>
>Thanks in advance.

SHARE A PHONE (BILL) ? are you nuts ???
you deserve to be ripped off....

Somebody? Anybody?


Rounder2006@hotmail.com wrote:
> Okay, the situation is this:
>
> My roomate and I have one of those bundled internet/cellphone/land line
> packages, so we share a cell phone plan for simplicity. The other
> night, he was on his cell phone with someone for a couple of hours.
> Come to find out later on that he had briefly chatted with a woman in a
> chat room, and then called her up. I'm not one to judge people's
> personal habits, but the thing that alarmed me was that this woman, old
> enough to know better, had given him her number after just a couple of
> minutes of chatting in the room. I may just be paranoid, but that
> seemed odd and given all the phone scams you hear about where people
> are ripped off for $50 a minute and what not, this drew a red flag for
> me. The bill is in my name after all.
>
> I ran the phone # through one of those reverse phone number finders on
> the 'net, and the number came back tied to a cell phone service in
> Washington. My question is, can one of those scams where they hit you
> for thousands of dollars be perpetrated from a cell phone? And how
> accurate are these reverse phone number finders which are telling me
> that this is a cell phone # to begin with?
>
> Thanks in advance.