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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.
These phone scams might be hot and new right now, but beware of these more “classic” phone call scams that can steal your money, too. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Although median losses were relatively low at $100, over 40% of the scams reported to the BBB were online purchase scams and over 80% of people report falling for the scam.
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Phone scams are on the rise as scammers see opportunity thanks to many Americans getting stimulus checks, an increase in concern about COVID vaccine distribution and soon, the annual tax season.
Phone fraud, or more generally communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intention of illegally acquiring money from, or failing to pay, a telecommunication company or its customers. Many operators have increased measures to minimize fraud and reduce their losses.
In fact, for people who have been victims of a financial scam, phone scams ranked first among 14 different fraud categories included in a GOBankingRates survey of more than 1,100 U.S. adults.
Caller ID spoofing remains legal in Canada, and has recently become so prevalent that the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has "add[ed] an automated message about [the practice] to their fraud-reporting hotline". [25] The CRTC estimates that 40% of the complaints they receive regarding unsolicited calls involve spoofing. [26]