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These area codes have been found to contain a higher-than-normal scam caller rate. If you don't live near these locations or know people in them, good chance a call from these area codes is a scam.
The good news is that scams operate in many known area codes, so you can avoid being the next victim simply by honing in on the list of scammer phone numbers. Read Next: 6 Unusual Ways To Make ...
All it takes is a quick glance to know if the call is for real or not. The post Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone Numbers Guide appeared first on Reader's Digest.
• 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.
Crawler devices - A majority of fraudulent calls originate from Nigerian phone scammers, who claim $12.7 billion a year off phone scams. [23] Some callers have to make up to 1000 calls per day. To help with speeding things up, they will sometimes use crawler devices which is computerized to go through every area code calling each number.
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.
Some geographic area codes are similar to the toll-free codes, e.g., 801, 818, 860. Toll-free numbers are also sometimes confused with 900-numbers, for which the telephone company bills the callers at rates far in excess of long-distance service rates for services such as recorded information or live chat.
Area codes were assigned based on the volume of traffic and the speed of dialing the code on a rotary electromechanical dial phone, so that the higher the volume of traffic, the less time it took to dial the area code. Area code 212 was the quickest, followed by 213 (Los Angeles) and 312 (Chicago), etc., all the way to 919 (North Carolina).