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Spokeo fills you in on what you need to know about phone scam calls and how to get rid of the bothersome numbers.
Look at the area code: Start by comparing the phone number’s area code to the list of area codes you should never answer. If it’s on the list, there’s a good chance there’s a scammer on ...
Area code Year Current region 212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; component of 212/332/646 and 917 overlays 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; component of 315/680 overlay 329: 2023: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 332: 2017
The five most popular area codes for scammers in 2024 were 720 in north-central Colorado, 272 in northeastern Pennsylvania, 959 in Hartford, Connecticut, 829 in the Dominican Republic and 346 in ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
An 809 scam is a form of phone fraud which exploits the tendency of telephone subscribers in Canada and the United States to presume that a number in the familiar North American Numbering Plan format of 1-NPA-NXX-XXXX is a domestic call at standard rates because of the absence of the 011- international prefix which normally indicates an overseas call.
Area codes 315 and 680 are telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the north-central area of the U.S. state of New York. Area code 315 was installed as one of the original North American area codes in 1947, while area code 680 was added to the numbering plan area (NPA) in an overlay plan in 2017.
What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.