Incoming 911 Calls?

Several Metro PCS cellular customers in the San Francisco Bay area say they’ve received incoming telephone calls that display the caller ID “911,” with the caller telling the person he/she has a warrant for their arrest or that there is an emergency at their residence and need to go home. In one case the caller asked for the person’s home address, and yet another case the female caller said she was a police officer who had been shot. The CHP says most of the called persons have names that could be interpreted as female, and are being received in a fairly small region northwest of San Francisco. It’s possible the calls are being made from a VoIP telephone, with the caller ID being ‘spoofed’ to display “911.”