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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.
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
Phone number lookup service ReversePhone recently compiled the top five area codes and phone numbers used by scammers in 2024. The list is based on the number of complaints about scam calls from ...
• 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.
Reports on the purported scam are an Internet hoax, first spread on social media sites in 2017. [1] While the phone calls received by people are real, the calls are not related to scam activity. [1] According to some news reports on the hoax, victims of the purported fraud receive telephone calls from an unknown person who asks, "Can you hear me?"
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In 2016, area code 614 was overlaid with 380 in the Columbus/Central Ohio area for the same reason. In 2020, 326 was added as an all services overlay for 937. Area code 283 was added as an overlay for 513 on April 28, 2023. [2] [3] Area code 436 went into service on March 1, 2024, as an overlay of 440. [4]
Area code 740 was established by an area code split of area code 614 on November 8, 1997. [1] By the end of 2013, exhaust studies indicated that the 740 area code would run out of telephone numbers sometime in 2015. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chose a relief plan by implementing an overlay with new area code 220, effective April 22 ...