Did you get a phone call from 760-705-8888, and you are wondering who was calling? Or maybe you answered a call from 760-705-8888, only to hear heavy breathing on the other end, or, worse, some scam artist trying to scam you. The reason that your caller I.D. is showing this number is because they are using Google Chat to call you, and 760-705-8888 is the outbound number that Google Chat uses.

If you use Gmail, you may have noticed something new in the past day or so. When you logged into Gmail yesterday or today, you may have seen a little notice that said “Make Phone Calls from Gmail”. This is a new feature that Google has added to their ‘Google Voice’ service: making telephone calls, over the Internet, directly from Gmail.