It happened to me last nighttime — five call , all from West Africa , only one ring each .
The Federal Communications Commissionissued a warningabout this type of cozenage call on Friday . According to the alarm , if you are call several times in a run-in , with only one closed chain each call — then whoever is behind the calls is probably endeavor to get you to call the issue back .
If you were to come back the call , a someone or a transcription might do , in an crusade to keep you on the phone . And as you judge to make sense of the call , you ’d be taking on expensive cost charges , much like if you were to call a 900 number . But you probably would n’t get laid until you get the phone bill . The per - minute charge per unit of making the call would count on your carrier , your location , and how long you spend on the line .
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This specific type of cozenage call is known as “ one ring ” or “ Wangiri , ” Japanese for one telephone pack , and it ’s one iteration of outside revenue share fake .
“ International revenue share fraud is when fraudsters intentionally drive phone calls to exchange premium rate sound numbers , ” Tim Prugar , vice president of fraud - detection companionship Next Caller say theNew York Times . “ These fraudsters get a kickback from the call . ”
A report from robocall monitoring and blocking serviceYouMailestimates there were 4.9 billion robocalls made to U.S. occupant in April .
According to the FCC , late study show a billow in these one - ring cozenage calls happening in recent days in Arizona and New York , largely coming from a “ 222″ country code , which go to Mauritania , Africa . My one - band call last Nox came from “ 232 , ” the country code for Sierra Leone .
Scammers can utilize software to spoof speech sound numbers pool and tattily blast many phones in one area with robocalls . Prugar tell the Times that perhaps one percent of robocalls head to someone call back — but if an surgical operation can tattily make 100 million calls , that would then bring in 1 million collision .
The FCC has asked butt of this character of scam tofile a complaintwith the government agency .
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