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- 809_scam abstract "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 indicates an overseas call.Points in the former +1-809 area code are not in North America but in the Caribbean, distributed among multiple small island nations. Some former 1-809 points are US possessions (such as Puerto Rico and USVI), but many are sovereign entities. Adding to the confusion, the 809 code was split into multiple new area codes in 1997. A call to these points may be just as expensive as any other overseas call.Most numbers in these area codes are legit; calls to regular landlines in many of the countries may normally be half a dollar a minute. There is, however, a risk that premium numbers in these area codes will not be properly identified as such; the use of a foreign country allows circumvention of the meagre consumer protections which the US Federal Communications Commission or the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) apply to domestic 1-900 or 976-XXXX schemes.Consumers usually receive a message telling them to call a phone number with an 809, 284, 649, or 876 area code in order to collect a prize, find out information about a sick relative, etc. The caller assumes the number is a typical three-digit U.S. area code; however, the caller is actually connected to a phone number outside the United States, often in Canada or the Caribbean, and charged international call rates.Often, the claims of high costs are exaggerated to the point of urban legend after repeated re-telling in e-mail. \"I called this number not knowing it was $2425/minute and I received a bill for $24100\" is likely a corruption of an original message that a $25/minute call rang up a $100 bill in four minutes; a huge distortion of what may have originally been a valid (but sensationalised) warning.As these are international calls, they are not covered by domestic flat-rate calling plans. These codes may contain caller-pays mobile numbers or individual countries which impose inflated taxes or monopoly pricing on inbound international calls.".
- 809_scam thumbnail Caribbean_Area_Codes.svg?width=300.
- 809_scam wikiPageID "30966134".
- 809_scam wikiPageLength "5581".
- 809_scam wikiPageOutDegree "29".
- 809_scam wikiPageRevisionID "654614233".
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink AT&T.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_284.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_649.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Area_code_876.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Area_codes_in_the_Caribbean.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Caller_ID_spoofing.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Radio-television_and_Telecommunications_Commission.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fraud_in_the_United_States.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Collection_agency.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Email_spam.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Communications_Commission.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink List_of_country_calling_codes.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink North_American_Numbering_Plan.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Pager.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Phone_fraud.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Phone_sex.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Premium-rate_telephone_number.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Puerto_Rico.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Split_plan.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Telephone_numbering_plan.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Telephone_numbers_in_the_Dominican_Republic.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Virgin_Islands.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Urban_legend.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Voicemail.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink Wangiri.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLink File:Caribbean_Area_Codes.svg.
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLinkText "809 scam".
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLinkText "Caribbean or other international numbers".
- 809_scam wikiPageWikiLinkText "premium calls to Caribbean or foreign numbers within the NANP".
- 809_scam wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Quote.
- 809_scam wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- 809_scam subject Category:Fraud_in_the_United_States.
- 809_scam hypernym Form.
- 809_scam comment "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 indicates an overseas call.Points in the former +1-809 area code are not in North America but in the Caribbean, distributed among multiple small island nations.".
- 809_scam label "809 scam".
- 809_scam sameAs Q19871284.
- 809_scam sameAs m.012697tx.
- 809_scam sameAs Q19871284.
- 809_scam wasDerivedFrom 809_scam?oldid=654614233.
- 809_scam depiction Caribbean_Area_Codes.svg.
- 809_scam isPrimaryTopicOf 809_scam.