Bizarre Voicemail Message

[Ink The Echidna]

So I received a voice mail message on Friday. (Have a listen.)

Transcript:
Sent Friday, December 15th, at 2:44 PM.
{beep}
Hi ______, this is Kim at the probation office and I just got a call from the county attorney's office saying that have some hot checks [unintelligible] over there that were written September of '06, and the amount is $294. So if you don't get in contact with them ASAP, they're gonna issue you a warrant. Just to let you know. Bye.
{click}
End of message.

Now here's where it gets interesting. I haven't had any bounced checks but one, which was only $30 and has long since been cleared. The county attorneys in all three counties I've spent money in recently say they have nothing on my name or either of my recent addresses in their systems, and that if they had, they would have sent me notice by mail. The supposed hot checks were written MONTHS ago; why am I only just now hearing of them?

This "Kim" doesn't give a last name, acting entirely too familiar for a professional call, almost as if she thinks she's talking to someone she already knows (like a probation officer to someone on probation...). She calls me by my first name only; again, too familiar and not professional, and information she easily could have picked up from my voice mail greeting. She doesn't identify what county she's calling from, as if I should already know. She doesn't leave contact information, again, as if I should already know. Why a probation office would be calling me in the first place is beyond me, since I've never even been arrested.

As far as I can tell, it's just a sick crank call. Didn't stop me from nearly having a panic attack when I first listened to it, before I analyzed it and started making phone calls.

Still freakin' creepy. Any thoughts?

[Kyoma]

I think they botched the step where they tell you to get in contact with THEM and give all your private information.

I've heard of this before but y'know..It actually had some blatantly obvious "So get in contact with us and give us all sorts of valuable info we won't use for identity theft and stuff. Scouts honor. Word."

[Ink The Echidna]

See, that's what a lot of people have said, that it sounds like a phishing scam, except they left no contact info. Them screwing up seems pretty reasonable.

[Kulock]

You can't completely disregard it, but my money's on "People are bastards and will do absolutely anything for five seconds of self-amusement."

[Sofox]

Wrong number. She probably had some sort of address book or phone book and either screwed up you second name in looking it up or there's someone with the same name as you on it. Alternatively, she somehow had your number on her phone along with the person she wanted to call and with both of you having the same first name, she glanced at the name and hit "call" while in a rush or not thinking and so didn't realise she was calling the wrong person. That's an easy mistake.
Seriously though, all the trademarks of a wrong number.