664-412-0065
Montserrat, MONTSERRAT
 | Debra 2014-01-24 00:58:09 Unknown |
I didn't answer and also I don't know where Montserat (sp) is.
| Mike 2014-01-17 17:17:18 Unknown |
Midnight call. Caller did not leave a message
| Carol 2014-01-15 00:08:55 Telemarketer |
called and didn't leave msg-only a few ppl have this number Do not call list is worthless, the telemarketers don't abide by it and when you file a complaint, nothing gets done. I have filed a dozen reports on another number that repeatedly calls and nothing is done to stop them.
| Maxine 2014-01-13 19:43:30 Unknown |
No message
| Fedor 2014-01-13 17:55:09 Unknown |
I got a call at 5:26 am on my google phone number never called back looks like some of the scam phone number to me
| Barb 2014-01-13 17:10:02 Unknown |
I received a call from 664-412-0065 and did a google search. Glad I did. Call came in at 10:49pm last night.
| Susan 2014-01-13 15:25:45 Unknown |
Called, rang once and hung up.
| deena 2014-01-13 04:20:45 Unknown |
same number called me so I called it back thinking it was someone needing to get ahold of me. went to an automated system in I hung up right away. by the post ive read I better call my cell carrier and see if I was charged anything.
| Josu 2014-01-12 23:24:03 Unknown |
Got a call at 5:20, did not even go to a full ring and hung up. irritating cause just recently ive been recieving many unknown texts from strangers i dont know, people have told me its because some companys recylcle old numbers. stupid and irritating if you ask me
| Kevin 2014-01-12 15:23:44 Unknown |
Got a call very early in the morning from them. Didn't answer (was sleeping) saw it next day. Also got a video chat request from a strange name... possible connection?...
| ANonieMouse 2014-01-12 13:14:46 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.
| Pat 2014-01-12 13:12:22 Unknown |
Called me in the middle of the night. Scammers!! Thanks for everyone's help.
| mish 2014-01-12 12:25:33 Unknown |
Got woken up at 4:45 am with one ring, hang up, no message. Don't answer calls I don't know the number to and definitely didn't call back. Very irritating that people are that rude...
| laughing right back at scammers 2014-01-12 06:37:16 Unknown |
CALLING ME'S A WASTE OF TIME DUMmAXXES I GOT PREPAID PHONE AT END OF PAYPLAN TRY BILLING THAT lmao. This is rediculous innocent hard working ppl being harrassed & robbed by these ppl / comp or person. Something needs done bout this..i called back (was on other call) recieved verizon msg s aying couldnt complete call .. i guess not since i cant be billed suckered scammed out of my money. Oh & who said i had any? Im broke scammers THIS IS YOUR FRICKIN MEMO GET IT GOT IT GOOD ...GOOOOOD NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
| Jeff 2014-01-12 03:54:06 Unknown |
DONT CALL THE NUMBER BACK OR YOU WILL NE CHARGED A HIGE INTERNATIONAL CALLING RATE. REPORT AND BLOCK THE NUMBER.
I'm an att customer. The last 4 of my number is 7969.
I'm an att customer. The last 4 of my number is 7969.
| Emma 2014-01-12 00:08:31 Unknown |
Woke me up at 3:33 am. Ran to the phone because I worry something may have happened to my daughter who lives 2 hours from me. They don't know who they are dealing with...I will report this to my office. They just made a HUGE mistake.
| brian 2014-01-11 22:20:10 Unknown |
Sorry but not true, there are several nearby nations that use area codes prefaced by a 1 such as csnada and most Caribbean countries, using NANP. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan
| Sarah 2014-01-11 22:16:04 Unknown |
Called me at 5:10pm est through my Google Voice number. Really strange. No message.
| Matt 2014-01-11 16:18:55 Unknown |
Called me last night after 10:00 and didn't leave a message.
| Rhonda 2014-01-11 15:55:15 Unknown |
Woke me up at 7:06 a.m. this morning. This was my day to sleep in!! It only rang once.
| Darek 2014-01-11 14:50:37 Unknown |
Called by this number at 2:30 in the morning. Wish I could find the jack***es who made this call. Need to settle this like the old days. With a rope and a tree.
| Mr. Klancy 2014-01-11 14:43:54 Unknown |
January 3rd. @ 1 am est and then again on January 10th. @ 11am est and once more on January 11th.@ 12:45 am est ,No messages ,Now it time for me to let the do not call registry know about this and have them look into this Low Life...
| Pete 2014-01-11 14:41:22 Unknown |
International calls have to be prefaced with a 00 or 01 or something similar. These calls are based in the US but they may still be a scam of some sort.
| Mooch 2014-01-11 14:39:03 Unknown |
Just called me a little before 6am... One ring, no msg.
| A2 2014-01-11 14:25:43 Unknown |
They called me a 444am today. I'm on call 24/7 so early morning calls aren't unusual for me but I didn't recognize the number and I didn't call it back. These scammer better hope I never find out who they are or they will need to make some calls!
| C Jones 2014-01-11 13:10:30 Unknown |
woke me up at 10:59 pm
| Ali 2014-01-11 13:09:53 Telemarketer |
I got a call at 12am. I figured it was a scam and went to look up the info on the call from my call list. I accidently called back but hung up before it rung. I'm so freaked it'll charge my bill now.
| Barbara 2014-01-11 12:50:37 Unknown |
This number called me at 2:00am (Central Time) It rang once and they hung up.
| Melissa 2014-01-11 12:45:39 Unknown |
This # called me at 6:35 am. Same thing rang once then that was it. Ugh woke me up and freaked me out. Thanks for the heads up.
| Man B 2014-01-11 12:39:05 Unknown |
This # called at 4:14 am no one answered...scam call Not happy!
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