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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 ...
1. The Must Sell Now Scam. The FBI recently updated a longstanding warning to be on the lookout for a scam that cost car buyers more than $54 million between 2014-2017.
Although scam callers once used a 900 number, they’ve changed their methods as the general public became aware of their tactic. Now, many scam phone numbers have different area codes, including ...
The U.S. state of Washington has six telephone area codes. The state initially used a single area code until it was divided in 1957 with the creation of area code 509 to serve Eastern Washington. In 1995, 206 was split again to serve just the Puget Sound region after area code 360 was created for the remainder of Western Washington.
In much of the North American Numbering Plan, a 0 or 1 in the second digit signified an area code until 1994; these numbers could not be issued as individual local exchanges without breaking eight-digit (1+7D) long-distance calls within an area code. The B-52's (album) used the non-working number 6060-842 as the title of a 45 rpm "B"-side track ...
Canadian TWX service used area code 610 until 1992, when it was exchanged for 600. 2015: 622 was activated for Canadian non-geographic use; 2023: 622 was overlaid with 633 for non-geographic use; 601: Mississippi (Jackson, Hattiesburg, Meridian, Natchez, Vicksburg, and most of central Mississippi) 1947: created for all of Mississippi; 1997 ...
• 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.
Area code 206 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Washington. The numbering plan area (NPA) includes Seattle and most of its innermost suburbs. This includes such suburbs as Shoreline and Lake Forest Park ; Mercer , Bainbridge , and Vashon Islands; and portions of metropolitan Seattle from ...