Call in the middle of the night .... "from a convict"

WTF

I just got this same call but today. wtf is up with this

I got a call from this number today twice in a row. The first time I ignored the call, and it left no message. The second time I answer and it tells me it was from the inmate system and then a recording came on saying, "It's TJ," a friend of mine who often gets into trouble. It then promoted me to accept the collect call and I hung up not wanting the fees. The weird thing was, it was his voice. I notified his father of the call, but still no response from him or from anybody who might possibly know of where he is. It's weird that the call came from Texas though, simply because we live in the valley of California and he doesn't have a car or money to get somewhere so far away. I'm still waiting from a response to hear if the call was fake or not.

Turns out the call was legit. TJ is in fact in jail, but I still have yet to find if he's in Huston, Texas like the call said, or if he's around town.