664-412-0064
Montserrat, MONTSERRAT
 | shy1alize 2014-01-13 16:36:32 Unknown |
how do we get it to stop?
| Brian 2014-01-13 16:28:18 Unknown |
Rang once and then hung up. Shows up as the call originating in Montserrat.
| Lois 2014-01-13 13:02:52 Unknown |
I received a call at 4 AM this morning that number is 664-412-0064. I looked it up. It came from Montserrat located in the Caribbean.
| Carol H 2014-01-13 05:25:58 Unknown |
Have received one call from this #, at 9:30 pm. My cell # is old, the iPhone 5 is relatively new. I wouldn't answer any # I don't recognize, and I sure as hell am not calling back. I block all of these calls--yes, you can do that on iPhones now--and using the privacy setting between 12-9 am makes sure these calls don't bother me. Yeah, they're annoying, but why would you answer a # you don't recognize? Duh
| steve 2014-01-13 04:57:37 Unknown |
Got a call from this number 1-12-14, 10:45pm. No v.m.I call back, recorder told me I wasn't authorized to call that number. Then my phone froze up. Had to take batt. out to reset it.
| Matt 2014-01-13 03:52:54 Unknown |
I got a call from this # @ 9:16 pm. Didn't leave a message. I'll add it to my blocked calls list.
| Bryan 2014-01-13 03:44:39 Unknown |
I'm with sprint so this probably isn't carrier specific.
| Lynn 2014-01-13 02:57:25 Unknown |
I just received a phone call on my cell phone from that number also. Might we all have the same carrier - Verizon?
| Biilly book 2014-01-12 18:45:32 Unknown |
Scam
| Kathie 2014-01-12 15:22:44 Unknown |
I got a missed call from this # @2:54 am; no message; this is a scam; I have been getting these call for weeks from three different number. The one time I called back I got what sounded like a sex tape and hung up. DO NOT CALL BACK!
| Deni 2014-01-12 13:34:51 Unknown |
I've heard of this and from what I've read there is an immediate $100 connect fee and $100 a minute. You've already been charged
| Kathy 2014-01-12 13:17:47 Unknown |
I found this number on my phone this morning. Who ever it is called me at 4am Sunday morning. I am on the National DO NOT CALL LIST. Would love to know who this is
| ANonieMouse 2014-01-12 13:13:45 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 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. Many of these calls come from Grenada, but more recently, a large number of reports have been received reporting similar calls from Dominica.
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 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 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. Many of these calls come from Grenada, but more recently, a large number of reports have been received reporting similar calls from Dominica.
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 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.
| Missy 2014-01-12 13:11:23 Unknown |
12:50AM phone rang once, no message
| meg 2014-01-12 09:47:13 Unknown |
Same here. Grr to whoever sold our numbers!
| RockabettyRed 2014-01-12 08:57:39 Unknown |
I've received these calls several times in the last few weeks, but my phone was on silent so they were missed calls. Picked one up by mistake, other end hung up as soon as I said hello. Really irritating. I've added the number to my "Spam" contact so it will go directly to vm next time. :)
| MB 2014-01-11 23:17:56 Unknown |
Got the call this afternoon. Unknown so I didn't answer. Same # 664 412 0064.
| Annoyed 2014-01-11 19:19:22 Unknown |
Got the call, same as others. Don't answer it is a scam!
| MP 2014-01-11 16:52:33 Unknown |
664-412-0062 Got the call at 5:45am - rang once and hung up - wake me up that early on Sat morn!! {*:*} they are sooooo lucky I don't know who they are. Scammers go to hell!!
| Ray 2014-01-11 16:15:03 Unknown |
664-412-0064 rang my cell phone one time at 4:45am, waking me up. I see I'm not the only one. Like kh said, so much for sleeping in on Saturday morning. I guess from now on I'll be turning my cell phone off before going to sleep. I hope whoever is behind this has their sleep disturbed once for each and every call that they placed in the middle of the night. Karma!!
| DB 2014-01-11 15:30:52 Unknown |
664-412-0064 called at 2:38 am on my cell phone. I did not answer. No message left.
| Donna 2014-01-11 15:19:35 Unknown |
Got a call from this number at 4:00 this morning. No idea. I looked up the 664 area code and I am finding it's Monserrat in the Caribbean??? I went to a website reagarding the area code and my virus protection told me there was something suspicious with the website.
| nurse 2014-01-11 15:16:52 Unknown |
Been looking on craigslist for a car. Have found several that only contact is text number then they text and ask you to email them, then they give you story...car is with ebay in crate ready to ship, you have 5 days to look over and then release money, they say I'm on oil rig, in military, a marine biologist, my son died in car accident....then you get calls because they have gotten your phone number...its a huge scam!!!
| connie 2014-01-11 14:30:31 Unknown |
Got a call at 5:56am from 6644120064
| CAA 2014-01-11 14:19:41 Unknown |
DO NOT CALL BACK IT CHARGES. THATS THE SCAM. THEY CALL AND HANG UP,...YOU CALL BACK AND STAY ON HOLD WITH A $100.00 CONNE,T FEE AND $100.00 A MINUTE, THEN YOU GO STRAIGHT TO HOLD AND AS THE MONEY RACKS UP YOU SIT ON HOLD AND THEY RAKE IN THE MONEY. SO, DONT ANSWER,...DONT CALL BACK.
| CAA 2014-01-11 14:14:10 Unknown |
Same here 664-412-0064,.....They call rings once and hangs up. Trying to get your LOCATION. DO NOT ANSWER.
| Aimee 2014-01-11 14:06:05 Unknown |
Same. Called at 3:48 am. One ring, hung up. A-nnoy-ing.
| Toni 2014-01-11 13:17:33 Unknown |
Got the same call at 1:30 am Left no voice mail
| sleepy 2014-01-11 12:50:56 Unknown |
it's those alien phone calls from other planet we be waiting for...they're HEE RRRR!
| kh 2014-01-11 12:44:02 Unknown |
Received call at 6:04. one ring. So much for sleeping in on Saturday. Area code is Montserrat.
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