| Start calling 809, 876, and 284 Phone Numbers. Here's | | | | was in a panic. I didn't pay any attention to phone |
| how they work: | | | | numbers," the confused woman said. |
| A mother and homemaker, a New Jersey native, | | | | That's how they work. From the shelter of the |
| received an "urgent" phone message saying "call back | | | | Carribean, 809, Dominican Republic, 876, Jamaica, 284, |
| immediately, your father had an accident." Upon doing | | | | British Virgin Islands phone numbers--these charlatans |
| so, putting through her call to a given 809 phone | | | | remain adrift from FTC phone number regulations |
| number, she was told to hold while the party tried to | | | | which protect Americans on 900 phone number calls. |
| locate the proper duty nurse (at the supposed | | | | Sudden accidents and illnesses are not the only lure |
| hospital). She did. For ten minutes. In later checking | | | | to call. Other ruses are a threat of legal action, to |
| through other sources she found that her father was | | | | claim a prize, to claim an inheritance from a long-lost |
| not endangered, had not had an accident, and was | | | | relative. Many more. Once you call back, aim is to stall |
| indeed well and happy. She promptly forgot the | | | | as long as possible, to pile up chargeable minutes, |
| phone call, dismissing it as a matter of mistaken | | | | which can range from as high as $2,400 per such unit |
| identity. Forgot about it, that is, until jogged back to | | | | of time. |
| reality by a $12,400 charge on her next phone bill. "I | | | | |