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Area Codes of the biggest Scammers

Area Codes of the biggest Scammers

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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 3, '14 3:02pm  
here are the area codes of the largest phone scammers, the ones in red are the worst.242- Bahamas 441 – Bermuda 784 - St. Vincent & Grenadines246 – Barbados 473 – Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique 809, 829, 849 – Dominican Republic264 – Anguilla 649 – Turks and Caicos 868 - Trinidad and Tobago268 – Antigua 664 – Montserrat 876 - Jamaica284 – British Virgin Islands 758 – St Lucia 869 - St. Kitts & Nevis345 – Cayman Islands 767 – Dominica  LINK 4951
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salth2o Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 10 years ago   Feb 3, '14 3:03pm  
I dont answer any unknown area codes and immediately put them on my blocked caller list. 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Feb 3, '14 3:08pm  
Hey, I'm expecting some money from a wealthy person in Trinidad!  I sent him some money so he could get to his Swiss bank accounts.  He's going to send me 10X the money I sent him.Hmmmm, it has been a while since I last heard from him.  Maybe I should give him a call?!Emoticon 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 3, '14 3:08pm  
it would make more sense if you posted the story...
Don't return calls from these area codes -- it's a scam!
 

 




By Joseph Steinberg
1 hour ago






 


 



A scam that repeats
itself in modified forms every few years is once again spreading
throughout the United Sates. Don’t be a victim!
Criminals target people simply by
calling them. Intended victims receive a call on their phones from area
code 473 which rings once and then disconnects, thereby arousing the
call-recipient’s natural curiosity – “who just called me and from
where?”  Sometimes the caller actually allows the phone to ring long
enough for the victim to answer -- after which the caller (or the
caller’s robocaller system) makes groaning sounds or otherwise indicates
that he or she is in distress and then hangs up, enticing the victim to
wonder what is going on and call back.
[More from Forbes: These Devices May Be Spying On You (Even In Your Own Home)]
If either of these happens to you – don’t call back.
While area code 473 may appear to
be domestic, it is not. This area code was created in the late 1990s
for the islands of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique, which,
like the United States, use country code 1. Calls placed to 473 numbers
are international calls and can be quite expensive – and, because the
criminals sometimes establish the number which the victim sees on his or
her caller ID as a premium service number – the rate can exceed $20 for
the first minute!http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dont-return-calls-area-codes-190000153.html 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Feb 3, '14 3:12pm  
Caller ID is the best invention since the telephone. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 4, '14 4:08am  
If Governor Christie (Govornor Jabba the Hutt) ever started a phone scam, he'd be the biggest scammer. 4951
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