I received a call from this number and dont know why...don't recognize it.....

Got hit on my mom's line for several calls. Calls in are free when you call back you get charged international rate.called T mobile they were great and credited us.
Don't call back any number that does not leave message.

One of my cell phones received a call from this number.  Its an international number, we called it back now I have 2 international calls on my cell phone bill.  Don't call back 664-412-0040.

They called AGAIN exactly a week later, Sunday at 8 p.m. EST on my T-Mobile cell...no idea how they are getting my number.  I had blocked 1-664-412-0040 the last time they called, so this week they go thru by omitting the "1" and the City, State.  All thay showed was 6644120040, my ringer was off so I didn't hear it...no message left.  Now both combos of this number are blocked.  Idiots!

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 one 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.  The first wave of these calls came from Grenada (which has a 473 "area code," but more recently, a large number of reports have been received reporting similar calls from Dominica and several other Caribbean nations.

In what is apparently a second current version of the scam, some reports in 800notes.com assert that people who have been called by some of these numbers have received large charges on their phone bills despite never having called the number back.  To the extent that these reports can be taken at face value, you may have to either block calls FROM any or all of these countries AT YOUR PHONE SERVICE PROVIDER.  If your phone service provider cannot do this to your satisfaction, you may be forced to switch to another phone service provider to avoid this scam.  Software solutions or external hardware that relies upon the delivery of a caller ID number to "hide" the fact that someone is calling (e.g., immediate pick-up and hang-up) are NOT likely to work.  That is because the software on your phone actually connects the call for a very brief period of time when it picks up the call and that is enough for your phone company to notice the connection and to charge you for receiving the call.  (I have no knowledge of whether call blocking by iOS 7 from Apple works this way or not.)  Using silent ringtones may not work, either, if the call lasts long enough to be diverted to voice mail for even a single second.  Call your provider NOW and ask for a solution to reject these calls before they start.

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 Caribbean 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.

they called 1.13.14

8:21pm   they called... left no message.

Rec'd a call from this number 4 days ago.  Made the mistake of answering but hung up right away when I realized it was not the call I was expecting.  There was some recorded sales pitch but I didn't listen long enough to be able to tell you what it was.

Got called at 2:40AM on 1/11. Called my business number and don't appreciate getting woke up at that time. Didn't answer because didn't recognize area code

I called at&t and they blocked all international calls to my cell phone.
I then called the FBI in Miami and reported this.
Yes I was part of the Target Hack.
Just keeps getting worse.

Tried to call me on my T-Mobile cell too.  

Another Scam

call at 7:30 am hung up after one ring

Rang once and I looked it up. Scam and I've never shopped at Target. It must be random.

got a call didn't answer

did anyone on this board shop a target during the time all of our info got hacked? bet this is where they got our info. calling verizon to see if they can block intl calls.  call came from Montserrat.

Got a call from them this evening.  I didn't recognize the number so I did a search on 664 area code.  It came from the Caribbean.  I'm glad I didn't answer it.  Now I gotta figure out how to block that number on my Windows phone.

Called my sprint phone.  Only rang twice and I searched the number.

These calls are coming from Montserrat (+664). Don't return the calls.

You will get charged at a premium call rate, if you call back and the scammers would get a portion of it. You will be kept on hold, while they play music or even run erotic audio tapes in an effort to keep you hooked. The longer they manage to keep a victim on the call, the higher they make.
If you call back, the carrier will bill you 3 to $5 per minute.
If you are billed, contact your carrier to remove the charges.

These calls arrive at night or early in the morning and would ring only once or twice, ensuring the call is missed. Being off guard at such odd times, many people end up calling back, only to be kept on the phone line, for several minutes.

Missed call, no message, added to ignore list.

Just got a call from this number too (1/13/14).  I didn't pick up - iPhone says it originates in Montserrat, which is a British island in the Caribbean.  Blocked it.

Phone rang twice then hung up

Called AT&T to let them know.  May be we should all do the same thing.  Call your phone provider and red flag that number.  If several customers report the number; they are more likely to keep an eye on it and investigate.  It could also be prank calls.

6644120040 called yesterday Sunday January 12,2014 at 8:28 pm and on Friday Jan 10.
The phone rang once. No message .
Call came from Montserrat.

4:45AM they called me. I don't answer calls I don't know. No voicemail, just a call.

Received a call on my cell phone at 5:15 am.  No message left. I believe this is a foreign number.

Got call two rings left no message.  

This number called my sprint phone rang once I didn't answer no voicemail either

I just realized that my Husband also got a call at the same exact time too, but the number that called was 664-412-0061 and from the same place! Weird! We have Sprint but did recently Shop at Target the day after they found out about the stolen info with Target, we figured it was taken care of and that they had significantly improved their security by then since it was national news only days before Xmas! And we spent ALOT there as we did almost ALL out Xmas shopping there! Should someone be notified? Our cell phone companies? target? The police? Some other federal office???

Just got a phone call from this number rang once no voicemail