This is crazy.. okee dokee and i just saw this.. please read it to your teenagers with phones. ..or ummm your 7 yr old with a phone. Source. Abcnews ALAN FARNHAM Feb 6, 2014, 4:02 PM The Better Business Bureau and the attorneys general of several states are warning consumers of a phone scam that costs victims $20 or more per call. Getty Images It works like this: Your phone rings once, leaving you notice of a missed call from an unfamiliar number. When you call back, youre charged $19.95 for an international call, plus $9 per minute for however long you stay on the line. Russian spies, mobsters hacking smartphones What keeps the scam going, Adam Levin, chairman and founder of Idenity Theft 911, tells ABC News, is the average persons unquenchable curiosity about a mysterious call. These are robocalls, says Levin, sent out by the thousands by computer. The scammers assume--correctly--that a certain percentage of people will respond. Brian Kowaleski of Lansing, Mich., got one such call. They try to make it like an odd call in the middle of the night, he told the Detroit Free Press, like an emergency. The area code that showed up on his phone was 268--for Antigua. Patrick Morrisey, attorney general of West Virginia, says, This is a national scam. Calls seem to be coming from Caribbean countries such as Antigua, Barbados, Jamacia, Grenada and other island nations using area codes such as 268, 876, or 473. But calls also may be from domestic numbers. The best advice, he says, is to be cautious about answering or returning phone calls from numbers and area codes you dont recognize. If someone calls and doesnt leave a message, chances are fairly good they didnt need to reach you that much.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 06:14:22 +0000
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