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  2. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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    An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars are ...

  3. 809 scam - Wikipedia

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    809 scam. 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 ...

  4. Area code 473 - Wikipedia

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    The 473 area code has been linked to a form of telephone fraud known as the "one ring scam". The person perpetrating the scam calls the victim via a robodialer or similar means, sometimes at odd hours of the night, then hangs up when the phone is answered with the hope that the victim will be curious enough to call the number back. [1]

  5. Area code 600 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 600 has a capacity of 798 central office prefixes (200 to 999, with 555 and 911 not issued). Six relief area codes (622, 633, 644, 655, 677 and 688) are reserved by NANPA as subject to assignment in Canada for expansion of non-geographic services [5] but have never been used. Area code 666 is not assigned.

  6. Telephone numbers in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    011 652XXXX. South-West Addis Ababa Zone. 011 653XXXX. West Addis Ababa Zone. 011 654XXXX. Central Addis Ababa Zone & North Addis Ababa Zone. 011 655XXXX.

  7. Area codes 876 and 658 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 876 was created on 1 May 1997, by a split of NPA 809. In the process area code 809 was removed from the country and existing central office codes were reassigned with the new area code. A permissive dialing period during which central office codes could be reached with either area code began on 1 May 1997 and ended 31 July 1998, after ...

  8. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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    Scam Identification is a feature of the T-Mobile and Metro carrier network which can be controlled by the app Scam Shield, customer care or dialing the short code #664 to turn on or off scam blocking. There are a number of phone apps which try to identify, screen, send to voicemail or otherwise deter telemarketing calls with most major carriers ...

  9. Area codes 613, 343, and 753 - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 44.990°N 75.752°W. Area codes 613, 343, and 753 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Ottawa and surrounding Eastern Ontario, Canada. Area code 613 is one of the 86 original North American area codes assigned in October 1947. Area code 343 was assigned to the numbering plan area in an overlay ...