473-520-9773
Grenada, GRENADA
 | templeton 2014-02-28 20:04:15 Unknown |
One ring and no message was left.
| K 2014-02-14 05:51:09 Unknown |
Had that happen, called back and was charge $1.69 by Verizon. I guess it could be worse by why can't we figure out a way to have all this blocked from our phones?
| Cece 2014-01-03 21:46:38 Prank Call |
This is a Grenada scam phone number - DO NOT CALL it back - Delete and BLOCK this number from your incoming and outgoing calls list.
| kirsten 2014-01-02 19:41:17 Unknown |
I got a phone call from 4735209770. Recorded moaning.
| J in Seattle 2014-01-02 17:52:56 Prank Call |
Got a call at 1:40pm on New Year's day. Didn't answer and no call backs so far.
| Heather 2014-01-02 15:51:32 Unknown |
473 520 9773 called me at 6 am as well. Didn't call back!
| Linda 2014-01-02 15:49:49 Unknown |
Also received this phone call at 6 a.m. Luckily didn't answer.
| Resident47 2014-01-02 14:41:40 Unknown |
Please see the warning notice from ANonieMouse a couple days ago. Your scamming callers do not maintain this site or this web page. No callers can magically determine which numbers should not be called based on anonymous comments. Criminals who mass-dial and violate laws have no plans to stop calling you no matter what you say and regardless of your DNC registrations. They need first to be sued or jailed.
| James 2014-01-02 13:18:52 Unknown |
Just got this call and minutes later my sister did as well, it was just an answer to porn when calling it back. Says it was from grenada
| judy b 2014-01-02 03:46:24 Unknown |
unwanted call very disturbing
| Lynelle Cruz 2014-01-02 02:20:58 Unknown |
Do NOT call any of my cell #.
| k utah 2014-01-02 01:56:56 Unknown |
Not a Utah code (801, 435, 385) - Da
| Berg 2014-01-02 01:22:34 Unknown |
Missed this call, but I never call back if no message and from someone I don't know. Have Verizon, so will go into my account and block the number since people say it will keep calling.
| colorado 2014-01-02 01:16:59 Unknown |
Porn call.. just a lot of moaning! Wasnt even sexy and if this is how granada have sex it would make sence why it is such a small country.
| WestSeaDoc 2014-01-01 22:34:31 Unknown |
p.s. I did a reverse look up and the call came from St. Georges, GN (Grenada). Ingenious scam, though.
| WestSeaDoc 2014-01-01 22:33:48 Unknown |
Same thing happened to me. I did not know about the timed charges so I'll call my carrier to be sure I'm not charged.
Thanks.
dlh726@aol.com
Thanks.
dlh726@aol.com
| Alisha 2014-01-01 22:14:39 Unknown |
Did your cell phone company charge you?
| Alisha 2014-01-01 22:11:55 Prank Call |
Hope I don't get charged wtf
| Grey Hawk Mark 2014-01-01 21:52:16 Unknown |
This is a Scam to get you to call back for phone sex for which you will be charged, I'm sure. Other folks have evidently experienced much of the same. I very briefly answered (I was able to hang up within about 5 seconds) and heard something like sex / porn going on followed by a Tone at which point I hung up. Do not even answer this number.
| Brianna 2014-01-01 21:41:32 Unknown |
Me too!
| Joyce Bedingfield 2014-01-01 19:15:23 Prank Call |
this was a very scary call sounded like my son and granddaughter were very sick... I even called 911 to have them checked on..
| Wanda 2014-01-01 18:56:02 Unknown |
Got 2 missed call notifications on my cell phone. Glad I missed them after reading the reports here.
| ANonieMouse 2013-12-31 20:46:16 Unknown |
473 "AREA CODE" WARNING -- DO NOT RETURN DIAL ONE RING CALLS RECEIVED FROM AREA CODE 473 !!!!!!
In the current variant of this scam, the caller doesn't have any intention of talking to you. All the scammer wants is for you to get upset enough about the late night call that you return the call, never even noticing that it is from a foreign country outside the reach of US or Canadian laws. When you return the call (at international rates), there may also be a big surcharge added to your phone bill that gets passed along to the scammer.
What appears to have been the original version of the scam surfaced about 11 years ago in Japan and is known as the "Wangiri scam:"
From Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/08/21/n ... r/#.Ur2543-9KSN
From the Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/1367988
A few U.S. news organizations, but not many, have picked up on this latest variant:
KPVI, Pocatello, ID TV report on Grenada phone scam
http://youtu.be/eSp9tY1gBW8
From Toledo News Now
http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/23695832/b ... huge-phone-bill
I don't think this problem is limited to or has anything to do with Verizon. The same problem has been reported on other carriers, I believe, but Verizon Wireless appears to be the biggest carrier, so they get the most calls. Verizon has a discussion board set up with at least one thread concerning "473" calls:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/1035009
It appears that at least Verizon is devoting some resources to stop these callers or at least refund some or all of the charges for people who call these numbers. How long that will last is known only to Verizon, and even they may not have decided at this point. Other carriers may also be doing the same. They all want to avoid bad publicity that may drive away customers, of course.
At least one early report on 800notes.com, if taken at face value, asserted that a charge of $100.00 was made to a phone bill for calling back for 15 seconds. Even regular calls to 473 numbers are billed at upwards of $1.80 per minute by most cell phone carriers, even on so-called "unlimited" phone plans, unless you have paid extra for an international dialing plan. It may be that the scammers get a cut of this money for every international call they receive.
That's why either:
(1) you can't return the phone call, because even though you would otherwise be able to dial it like an ordinary long distance number, you phone company has a restriction on your placing international calls (which these are). At least some pre-paid cell phone services work this way. If this case applies to you, consider yourself lucky. Or,
(2) when you call back and get through, the operator of the 473 phone number tries to keep you on hold for as long as possible to run up your phone bill and their profits.
The scammers don't have to be associated with recent security breaches, such as the recent one at Target stores. (In fact, many of the victims of this scam say that they either don't shop at Target or did not shop there during the period of the known security breach.) All the scammers have to do is randomly dial a lot of telephone numbers in already-assigned area codes. And they must be dialing a LOT of them based on the complaints logged to 800notes.
It probably doesn't cost them anything to dial you, either, if the called party (you) doesn't pick up the call before they hang up. It only takes a small percentage of angry and/or curious people calling back for them to make a lot of money. They don't even have to pay for real people to operate a call center -- it's all done by machines, outside the reach of US and Canadian law enforcement.
So do yourself a favor and don't call these scammers back. And you'll also be doing us all a favor, because they wouldn't call anyone at all if there weren't so many people who fell for this scam.
In the current variant of this scam, the caller doesn't have any intention of talking to you. All the scammer wants is for you to get upset enough about the late night call that you return the call, never even noticing that it is from a foreign country outside the reach of US or Canadian laws. When you return the call (at international rates), there may also be a big surcharge added to your phone bill that gets passed along to the scammer.
What appears to have been the original version of the scam surfaced about 11 years ago in Japan and is known as the "Wangiri scam:"
From Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/08/21/n ... r/#.Ur2543-9KSN
From the Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/1367988
A few U.S. news organizations, but not many, have picked up on this latest variant:
KPVI, Pocatello, ID TV report on Grenada phone scam
http://youtu.be/eSp9tY1gBW8
From Toledo News Now
http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/23695832/b ... huge-phone-bill
I don't think this problem is limited to or has anything to do with Verizon. The same problem has been reported on other carriers, I believe, but Verizon Wireless appears to be the biggest carrier, so they get the most calls. Verizon has a discussion board set up with at least one thread concerning "473" calls:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/1035009
It appears that at least Verizon is devoting some resources to stop these callers or at least refund some or all of the charges for people who call these numbers. How long that will last is known only to Verizon, and even they may not have decided at this point. Other carriers may also be doing the same. They all want to avoid bad publicity that may drive away customers, of course.
At least one early report on 800notes.com, if taken at face value, asserted that a charge of $100.00 was made to a phone bill for calling back for 15 seconds. Even regular calls to 473 numbers are billed at upwards of $1.80 per minute by most cell phone carriers, even on so-called "unlimited" phone plans, unless you have paid extra for an international dialing plan. It may be that the scammers get a cut of this money for every international call they receive.
That's why either:
(1) you can't return the phone call, because even though you would otherwise be able to dial it like an ordinary long distance number, you phone company has a restriction on your placing international calls (which these are). At least some pre-paid cell phone services work this way. If this case applies to you, consider yourself lucky. Or,
(2) when you call back and get through, the operator of the 473 phone number tries to keep you on hold for as long as possible to run up your phone bill and their profits.
The scammers don't have to be associated with recent security breaches, such as the recent one at Target stores. (In fact, many of the victims of this scam say that they either don't shop at Target or did not shop there during the period of the known security breach.) All the scammers have to do is randomly dial a lot of telephone numbers in already-assigned area codes. And they must be dialing a LOT of them based on the complaints logged to 800notes.
It probably doesn't cost them anything to dial you, either, if the called party (you) doesn't pick up the call before they hang up. It only takes a small percentage of angry and/or curious people calling back for them to make a lot of money. They don't even have to pay for real people to operate a call center -- it's all done by machines, outside the reach of US and Canadian law enforcement.
So do yourself a favor and don't call these scammers back. And you'll also be doing us all a favor, because they wouldn't call anyone at all if there weren't so many people who fell for this scam.
| annoyed 2013-12-31 20:12:32 Unknown |
Missed a call at 3:58 am. Did return the call and was blessed with some pleasant sounds....not my cup of tea.
| Coleen Waliezer 2013-12-31 16:16:31 Unknown |
Not impressed. Call came in at 3 am.
| Rachel 2013-12-31 15:18:27 Unknown |
Got a call from this 473 number at 4:20 am. Rang twice. Earlier that evening my husband got a call from the same number. Didn't answer either but it lasted for 2 rings.
| think 2013-12-31 11:02:35 Unknown |
Sounds off to me never ansered 3 calls
4am To 5am chelken for bug or vi maybe jumpin worm
4am To 5am chelken for bug or vi maybe jumpin worm
| Julie 2013-12-31 10:06:35 Unknown |
Would like calls stopped and no charges from an international call!!
| J&l 2013-12-31 10:04:51 Unknown |
Called each of our phones......irritating. Would be nice if whomever was caught....
| jon 2013-12-31 05:17:20 Unknown |
got a call from this number at 7:28 pm rang once , I never answered or called back. Then both my parents got a call from this number a few minutes later. They answered and said it sounded like crying? then the person hung up. Never called back. Glad I found this site to find out what it was all about. thanks
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