Posted on 02/08/2014 7:23:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
We were getting lots of it, but it has stopped, at least for now.
Calls are from Antigue/Barbados
No worries if you have an Obamaphone.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
My son almost got scammed by this. He was waiting for a call from me. His phone rang once. He almost called it back but at the last minute noticed the area code. Smart kid.
Wht if someone answers, does it still hang up?
I was getting them too. I called my provider (Verizon) ans asked if I cold block anything from the area code (I think it was 268) and they said no. I told them I couldn’t be responsible if my phone butt-dialed it (as the damned thing likes to do on occasion). They said that they would “review policy” which I interpret as mollify me until I’m on the hook.
I hate cellphones.
How do they actually get money from you? Is it an actual phone company in another country that’s doing the scam? I don’t see the billing connection here.
I never answer the phone unless I recognize the number. Unknown callers almost never leave a message.
I don’t call back and that includes people I know.
Somebody tell me what’s in it for the scammers. I’ve gotten two hang up calls from area code 268. If I call that number back, Verizon makes money, not the scammer. Unless Verizon is the scammer.
Sony makes a phone which allows blocking of any LD area codes
Unless they leave a message with what they want, and what they want is something I want too, neither do I.
If I don’t recognize a number, I never pick up. Ever.
The number you call is like a 900 number which bills your phone for every minute you're on the line.
Thanks!
I don’t understand this. If the scammers get you to call back, then your own phone company will bill you, so where do the scammers make money from it?
Seriously.
I have only a cell phone. I give my number to very few people and while I know that it’s certainly been compromised it’s not nearly to the point of a listed land line. One ring call? Who returns a one-ring call to a number they don’t recognize? Who returns a call to someone who didn’t leave at least a short message regarding what this call was about? Missed calls with no message get no return from me. Why do it?
They have one of those pay numbers... like the psychic lines, or sex lines, etc. You call the number and you're billed automaticly, and their phone company gives the line's owner some percentage of the take.
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