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Have You Received Collect Phone Calls Telling Your to
Cancel Their Service?
It May Be a Scam!
If you have received phone call with a muffled recording asking you to press
1 to accept a collect call, you may be about to be scammed. Typically, they call
asking that you reply with a STOP to cancel their locator service or if you do
nothing, you will be charged $9.99 per month beginning the next day.
Below are some of the phone numbers that have been reported to us as using
this ploy and a reference link to other websites that publish forums about
these phone scams.
If you think you have been wrongly billed for collect calls from jail or for
long-distance calls, contact the company listed on the bill. If they refuse to
reverse the charges, contact the phone company and the
Better Business Bureau.
Consumers should also contact the jail where the call originated as well,
because deputies would want to open their own investigation to determine if a
scam is being run out of a jail.
Reports from visitors:
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Date: 2008-02-17: Phone: 866-478-8892 -
also see this
website.
This is the phone number that my caller id showed from a prison, wanting me
to accept a collect call. I have received three such calls on 02/17/2008. I
hung up and did not respond. Further, inquiry on the net showed a similar
scam being reported in 2007. This is the first I heard of this scam, but
will be looking for further help in stopping this harassment.
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