649-232-9810
Turks & Caicos Islands, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS
 | anonymous 2014-01-21 19:30:59 Unknown |
got a call from them at 3am, woke my one year old. I never answer numbers I don't know and always google the number to see if it's a scam. thanks for the info y'all!
| ~KC 2014-01-15 16:01:35 Unknown |
Awesome research, ANonieMouse!! Kudos to you for the great leg work. In the past 12 hours I have received two calls from Turks & Caicos area code with the same prefix and one digit variant in the extension (9810 and 9816). Thanks to this website and the efforts above, I am not calling back.
| Ms W 2014-01-15 13:09:27 Unknown |
Gott he same call just now. Im glad I google ths # I have passed information on to family and friends
| L 2014-01-15 11:36:20 Unknown |
Got a call from this number at midnight .... Didn't leave a message.
| Nikki 2014-01-15 05:09:19 Unknown |
How do u block a # from an iPhone?
| Nikki 2014-01-15 05:08:17 Unknown |
Got a call from this number. Didn't answer cause its from Turks and Caicos island. How do i block this number on my iPhone?
| Syd 2014-01-15 04:52:44 Unknown |
Just got a missed call, have noooo idea who this is. No message left. Tried calling back, and got some weird "Let me try that extension for you" message and then followed with a "Let me connect you to an operator" message. I didn't stick around long enough to bother for a real person to (potentially) pick up. I'm on Verizon, btw
| Julie 2014-01-14 20:16:45 Unknown |
Got a call at 7:54 this morning. Rang once. So glad that I did not pick up. Thank you for the posts.
| Rainberry 2014-01-14 17:35:07 Unknown |
Have been getting phone calls from this number for several weeks now. Have never answered it because I do not recognize the number. Glad I read these posts and know not to answer it. My caller ID App marks it as spam.
| Chris 2014-01-14 12:57:51 Unknown |
Missed call from (649) 232-9810
Turks & Caicos Islands. 12:32 am. Glad I turn my ringer off. Ain't nobody got time for that...I'm blocking the number on my iPhone. I don't know anyone from GT. Verizon network, here.
Turks & Caicos Islands. 12:32 am. Glad I turn my ringer off. Ain't nobody got time for that...I'm blocking the number on my iPhone. I don't know anyone from GT. Verizon network, here.
| Melynn 2014-01-14 12:51:50 Unknown |
Received a call a few minutes ago from this number, 649-232-9810. One ring and they hang up so it appears as a "missed call".
| lyn 2014-01-14 08:05:48 Unknown |
Received a call from this number on my cell at work at 11:57 p.m. Had no idea where this call came from. Have no idea what they wanted.
| Jen 2014-01-14 02:41:41 Unknown |
Correction: missed additional call from Dominica
| Jen 2014-01-14 02:38:15 Unknown |
Missed call from this # and from a # in the Turks&Caicos Islands within 2 hours of each other
| Anonymous 2014-01-13 20:28:04 Unknown |
If you are a T-Mobile customer consider yourself lucky. T-Mobile has a safeguard against calling numbers like these.
| VCH 2014-01-13 18:03:21 Unknown |
I Google unfamiliar numbers that call me--but I never answer them. This one was very interesting. Confirms my position: "If I don't know you, I ain't pickin' up."
| Lillian hall 2014-01-11 20:28:12 Unknown |
Unwanted cell call...this is for medical and family only
| Cole 2014-01-10 20:43:01 Unknown |
got a late night call. didn't wake up. Thanks for the info!
| Bob 2014-01-10 15:59:17 Unknown |
Called at 4:30 AM Eastern Standard Time on 10 Jan 2014. No message.
| vic 2014-01-10 14:50:48 Unknown |
I got a call from the same # last night. One ring and they hung up. I didn't return the call nor will I due to the info I have read. Thanks for everyone's info.
| Linda 2014-01-10 12:26:35 Unknown |
Same story as all the others. I don't answer unknown numbers and I don't return missed calls unless I know the number.
| Laurie 2014-01-10 12:14:54 Unknown |
Who are you?
| Mike 2014-01-10 11:39:00 Unknown |
Rang a few times and missed the call. Caller IF said Turks?
| Susan 2014-01-10 06:41:29 Unknown |
Just got a call from this number, 1:27 AM, but I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know. It is terrible that they call at the times of the morning that one thinks of a family emergency so you almost pick it up.
| Tebo 2014-01-10 04:10:17 Unknown |
Just got a call. Fortunately hit cancel instead of answering. Thanks for the tip!
| Rob 2014-01-10 03:14:22 Unknown |
Rung twice and then hung up
| CIHU 2014-01-09 22:23:31 Unknown |
Just received a call from this #. One ring and an immediate hang up. No voicemail. I never answer calls from numbers I do not know. Thanks for the info from everyone's posts.
| Margaret 2014-01-09 22:10:44 Unknown |
Just received a call from this number. Music playing on a recording then a hang up. This was left on my voice mail.
| ANonieMouse 2014-01-09 17:52:07 Unknown |
CARIBBEAN ISLAND AREA CODE WARNING -- DO NOT RETURN DIAL ONE RING CALLS RECEIVED FROM CARIBBEAN ISLAND AREA CODES !!!!!!
Here is a warning (which happens to be from Verizon) concerning the Caribbean Island area code scam. Note particularly the subsections entitled "Pagers" and "E-mail" near the top of the page:
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/solutions/pu ... phone/index.xml
The Verizon web page also references an old Scambusters web page explaining this scam that appears to have first been written around 1999:
http://www.scambusters.org/809Scam.html
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. Many of these calls come from Grenada, but more recently, a large number of reports have been received reporting similar calls from Dominica.
What appears to have been one of the earliest reports of the original version of the scam (unless the original publication date that I gave of the Scambusters report is actually correct) surfaced about 11 years ago in Japan. There it became known as the "Wangiri scam:"
From Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/08/21/n ... r/#.Ur2543-9KSN
See also, 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, at least with respect to Grenada area code 473:
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
An older report from WCAX-TV in Burlington, VT describes the scam:
http://www.wcax.com/story/15581487/check-your ... area-code-scams
The biggest news organization to date that I have seen recently running a story on this scam is KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=28211799&nid=148&titl ... _cid=featured-3
In fact, Salt Lake City has either been specifically target for this aggressive scam, or at least the local law enforcement agencies and phone companies have a heightened awareness of it, as indicated by these two reports from KSTU Fox 13 news in Salt Lake City:
http://fox13now.com/2014/01/02/victim-officia ... targets-utahns/
and
http://fox13now.com/2014/01/02/police-warn-ag ... -473-area-code/
I don't think this problem is limited to or has anything to do with any particular cell phone provider. 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 from Grenada:
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 Caribbean Island numbers, for example, 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.
Here is a warning (which happens to be from Verizon) concerning the Caribbean Island area code scam. Note particularly the subsections entitled "Pagers" and "E-mail" near the top of the page:
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/solutions/pu ... phone/index.xml
The Verizon web page also references an old Scambusters web page explaining this scam that appears to have first been written around 1999:
http://www.scambusters.org/809Scam.html
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. Many of these calls come from Grenada, but more recently, a large number of reports have been received reporting similar calls from Dominica.
What appears to have been one of the earliest reports of the original version of the scam (unless the original publication date that I gave of the Scambusters report is actually correct) surfaced about 11 years ago in Japan. There it became known as the "Wangiri scam:"
From Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2002/08/21/n ... r/#.Ur2543-9KSN
See also, 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, at least with respect to Grenada area code 473:
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
An older report from WCAX-TV in Burlington, VT describes the scam:
http://www.wcax.com/story/15581487/check-your ... area-code-scams
The biggest news organization to date that I have seen recently running a story on this scam is KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=28211799&nid=148&titl ... _cid=featured-3
In fact, Salt Lake City has either been specifically target for this aggressive scam, or at least the local law enforcement agencies and phone companies have a heightened awareness of it, as indicated by these two reports from KSTU Fox 13 news in Salt Lake City:
http://fox13now.com/2014/01/02/victim-officia ... targets-utahns/
and
http://fox13now.com/2014/01/02/police-warn-ag ... -473-area-code/
I don't think this problem is limited to or has anything to do with any particular cell phone provider. 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 from Grenada:
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 Caribbean Island numbers, for example, 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.
| jb 2014-01-09 17:42:59 Unknown |
JUST GOT ONE MYSELF FROM THE SAME #?
Thought it was car dealer where my car was being serviced
Thought it was car dealer where my car was being serviced
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