809 Phone Scam

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809 Phone Scam

There's a pernicious phone scam making its way around the

Web, and this time it's real, according to the Urban

Legends Reference Pages. You receive an urgent message

asking you to call a phone number with area code 809

(sometimes it's a different number). Many callers assume

it's in the US, but it's another country -- actually the

Dominican Republic, not the British Virgin Islands as

stated in the email. It's a pay-by-minute number similar to

900 numbers in the US, but with much, much higher tolls.

Many callers get a literally endless wait, and charges pile

up while they're kept waiting. Check out the site linked

below for lots more information on this scam and how to

protect yourself from it. In this case, I think the good

advice about not opening unknown email attachments applies

-- don't call any unfamiliar or suspicious long-distance

numbers.

Click here for more information on the 809 phone scam.

http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/809.htm

Here's the Urban Legends Reference Pages home page.

http://www.snopes2.com/index.html