To file in the Department of Unsolved Mysteries: Some auto-dialing service is calling apparently random people up in the middle of the night and spamming them with recorded 2008 presidential campaign speeches from both parties. 

Complaints are surfacing on telemarketing-tracking sites like Who Called Us and 800Notes. The calls are appearing with the Caller ID (616) 980 2604 — a Grand Rapids, Michigan number served by a small regional telco called Lucre, Inc.

Details are sketchy, but various recipients of the calls say that they’ve heard recordings of political rallies, the voices of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Democratic candidate Chris Dodd, New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

The recordings apparently don’t ask for anything.

When Wired News called the number, a recorded woman’s voice on the other end said that the entry of a phone number would place the caller on an opt-out list.

It sounds like some bizarre telephone scheme to see if anyone is at home.

If you’ve gotten one of these calls, let me know by e-mail, or in the comments below.

Source: blog.wired.com