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iogames · #1 10-18-2008, 11:39 PM

I was browsing happily vB.org when I received a 'PRIVATE' call, and I picked the call, then an automatic voice told me:

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'You've a collect call...'

after a pause the system said:

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'However, your plan is not allowed to received collect calls, please enter a credit card...'

so I laugh and I hung up, but then I started thinking, it's an old trick or it's new? I can't retrieve the phone number from my online bill

jizwood125 · #2 10-23-2008, 12:45 AM

That's quite new, at least for me.

djxcee · #3 10-23-2008, 06:26 AM

Yea, sounds new. Never happened to me.
Mobile or home phone?

gamerfu · #4 10-23-2008, 07:16 AM

WOW!

That is totally unheard of. I wonder if the phone company of police would care to track that scam?

I doubt it.

Trip · #5 10-23-2008, 02:38 PM

I would assume that is a scam. However, in a case like that, it's scary to think how many peeps would reach for their credit card though.

Wayne Luke · #6 10-24-2008, 01:10 PM

Its a fairly old trick actually. At least since the 80s. Might be new to cellphones but has been used in the analog world for a while. Used to target families of people who were incarcerated.

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