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<blockquote data-quote="Hippie Rancher" data-source="post: 249543" data-attributes="member: 4203"><p>snopes is your friend:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp</a></p><p></p><p>809 Area Code Scam</p><p></p><p>Claim: Unsuspecting phone customers have been gulled by scam artists into placing calls to area codes in the Caribbean that result in hefty charges.</p><p></p><p>Status: Real fraud, but its usage is rare and most victims are taken for only a small amount of money.</p><p></p><p><snip></p><p></p><p></p><p>As mentioned above, the amounts of money involved in these scams have been greatly exaggerated (probably by computer-introduced transcription errors) to the point that readers are now warned they may be charged more than $2,400 per minute if they fall for this scam! Actually, a victim might realistically be taken for $25 to $100, but not thousands of dollars. </p><p></p><p><snip></p><p></p><p>The Better Business Bureau strongly recommends that no matter how consumers are approached, if they are asked to respond to an "809" area code call, they should investigate further or simply disregard the message. (There is, of course, nothing wrong with talking to people who live in this area code if you happen to know them. All cautions regarding the 809 code apply only to solicitations to contact folks unknown to you.) If you have to call an a number in an area code that's unfamiliar to you, you can use an Area Decoder to check it out first.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Area decoder here: <a href="http://decoder.americom.com/cgi-bin/decoder.cgi" target="_blank">http://decoder.americom.com/cgi-bin/decoder.cgi</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hippie Rancher, post: 249543, member: 4203"] snopes is your friend: [url=http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp]http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp[/url] 809 Area Code Scam Claim: Unsuspecting phone customers have been gulled by scam artists into placing calls to area codes in the Caribbean that result in hefty charges. Status: Real fraud, but its usage is rare and most victims are taken for only a small amount of money. <snip> As mentioned above, the amounts of money involved in these scams have been greatly exaggerated (probably by computer-introduced transcription errors) to the point that readers are now warned they may be charged more than $2,400 per minute if they fall for this scam! Actually, a victim might realistically be taken for $25 to $100, but not thousands of dollars. <snip> The Better Business Bureau strongly recommends that no matter how consumers are approached, if they are asked to respond to an "809" area code call, they should investigate further or simply disregard the message. (There is, of course, nothing wrong with talking to people who live in this area code if you happen to know them. All cautions regarding the 809 code apply only to solicitations to contact folks unknown to you.) If you have to call an a number in an area code that's unfamiliar to you, you can use an Area Decoder to check it out first. Area decoder here: [url=http://decoder.americom.com/cgi-bin/decoder.cgi]http://decoder.americom.com/cgi-bin/decoder.cgi[/url] [/QUOTE]
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