From the NYPD Weekly Crime Prevention Tip:
Police are warning residents about the “one-ring phone scam,” which uses auto-dialers to target cell phone numbers across the country. The danger to consumers is not in receiving the call, but in calling back.
Scammers let the phone ring once and then hang up, prompting a missed call notification on phones. When an intended victim returns the call, police say they hear a message like “You’ve reached the operator, please hold,” while being slammed by a heft per-minute charge on top of an international rate.
Police say the calls come from phone numbers with three-digit area codes that look like they are from within the U.S., but are actually associated with international phone numbers.
The area codes used by scammers include 268, 284, 473, 664, 649, 767, 809, 829, 849 and 876.
To protect themselves, police advise cell phone owners to ignore a call like this should they receive one. If you’re tempted to call back for whatever reason, check the number on online directories or search engines first so you can confirm where the phone is registered or see if it’s listed as a scam phone number.
If you have been the victim of the scam, police say to try to resolve the charges with your cell phone carrier and, if that doesn’t work, file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.
Don’t warn, contact the carriers and make them aware to stop it in their core. Then trace the routes back to those earning off the terminating BTN.
that’s my way as well, smart thinking
411 is a service that if you use it they will charge you for it,
That’s not he scam that is being spoken about, you are paying Bc you called 411 which is ‘directory’
It was my niece’s mother! Ooops.
I never call back unidentified numbers anyway. If it’s important they’ll call again or leave a voicemail!!!
I don’t even bother calling back if they miss a call from an I identified number?
You genius. They call from this area code to any NY area code. Do it could happen to you! That’s who they’re telling.
tell the chabad communities directly asssoc. with these area codes.
now it makes sense.
got hit with an $8 411 fee. was able to get it removed by calling a sprint operator
Is this happening only in America or all around the world