Notice from District Regarding Phone Scam

[carm310]

I just received the following notice by email from the Community Development District with a Media Release from the Lady Lake Police regarding a “One Ring Phone Scam”. We do not answer Unknown or unrecognized calls but I did look back at my caller ID over the last month and we had quite a few unknown calls. Of course I do not know if they are related to this scam but it is a good practice to let the calls go to voice mail.

Here is a link to the PDF:
http://www.districtgov.org/PdfUpload/One%20Ring%20Scam.pdf

[JB in TV]

Good info! I never try to call back an unrecognized missed caller... But I wonder how you could be billed for answering a call???

[asianthree]

Or are they checking to see if you are home.

[JB in TV]

Or are they checking to see if you are home.

Wife and I received one of these calls on each of our cell phones at the exact same time last week. 1 ring, we did not call back.

[carm310]

Come to think of it, there was a 1 ring call yesterday on our home phone, it was short and quick and I thought the length of the ring sounded odd.

[Cisco Kid]

Are these land lines only or cell also ?

I think phone companies could stop these if they wanted .

[jblum315]

I Never answer unknown or not provided phone calls. And they seldom leave a message

[cabo35]

We received several of these calls on my wife's phone. Didn't pick up or call back any of them. Used block future call feature from the number but they keep using different phones suggesting a persistently annoying source.

We contacted Verizon who acknowledged their awareness of the growing problem but offered us no remedy or assurance that we would not be billed in the event of an inadvertent connection.

Insidious dilemma when you have family in several area codes and some who travel.

Thanks for the heads up carm310 and thank you TOTV for providing a community service resource.

[Bonnevie]

I had a 473 call on Monday. didn't answer it and glad I didn't.

[Doctommft]

Phone marketers will have a robo call system call and if you answer, your number is then sent to the marketer who knows you are home and will answer the phone. They do not have to waste time waiting for an answering machine. The second call will have a different number on the caller ID.

[JerryP]

Good info! I never try to call back an unrecognized missed caller... But I wonder how you could be billed for answering a call???

Agree, how can you be charged for answering the phone?

[Lbmb24101]

I just received the following notice by email from the Community Development District with a Media Release from the Lady Lake Police regarding a “One Ring Phone Scam”. We do not answer Unknown or unrecognized calls but I did look back at my caller ID over the last month and we had quite a few unknown calls. Of course I do not know if they are related to this scam but it is a good practice to let the calls go to voice mail.

Here is a link to the PDF:
http://www.districtgov.org/PdfUpload/One%20Ring%20Scam.pdf

Yes
A friend forwarded this info today!
It comes from the Clark Howard website.
These arevthe area codes to watch:

473
809
876

284
268

[Bogie Shooter]

Yes
A friend forwarded this info today!
It comes from the Clark Howard website.
These arevthe area codes to watch:

473
809
876

284
268

242-Bahamas 649-Turks and Caicos
246-Barbados 664-Montserrat
264-Anguilla 758-St. Lucia
268-Antigua 767-Dominica
284-British Virgin Islands 784-St. Vincent, Grenadines
245-Cayman Islands 809,829,849-Trinidad and Tobago
441-Bermuda 876 Jamaica
473-Grenada 869 St. Kitts and Nevis

[Cobh521]

I received this call yesterday. Since I was expecting a call, I did not look to see who it was from. I called the phone company. They asked if anything was said and what I heard. She is marking my account because the charge will not appear until the end of your billing cycle. The charge will be a fee of some kind such as membership fee, activation fee, etc. the phone company will take it off.

[JourneyOfLife]

Phone companies could deter that sort of fraud if they wanted!

[JB in TV]

Can someone explain how you can be charged for answering an incoming call? Other than cell phone minutes being used....I don't understand. Thanks

[Cobh521]

Can someone explain how you can be charged for answering an incoming call? Other than cell phone minutes being used....I don't understand. Thanks

I don't think you are actually charged for the call, from what I understand by answering the phone, you are agreeing to some sort of membership fee. The fee will be listed separately on your bill. I know that there is a block service on Verizon for premium fees and I believe this may fall under that category. I just turned it on for my cell phone. I was told by Verizon to check my bill at the end of the billing cycle to assure there are no additional fees and they will remove them for me.