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Did you get a call from a number with the area code 676? This is a scam that can cost you a lot of money
Many Israelis report that they have returned calls with area code 676, which is associated with a small island nation called Tonga, located in the southern Pacific Ocean. If you answer the call, it may cost you quite a bit of money
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Mikey Levy
Monday, 24 August 2020, 10:04- Share on Facebook
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Did you get a call from a number with area code 676? Beware, this is a scam. In the last day, many Israelis have discovered an unanswered call from a phone number beginning with the 676 area code; This is a sting exercise, which aims to charge tens of dollars from any victim who returns a call, or dares to answer in real time. The prefix comes from a small island nation called Tonga, located in the southern Pacific Ocean, south of Samoa and east of Fiji.
This type of scam started three years ago, then went through several rounds: first the people started getting calls from Tonga, and then from the Maldives. According to estimates, the crooks are not in these countries, but use numbers remotely.
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How It Works?
Sting operators dial an ID number from a remote country and hang up after a ring or two. Some of their victims go back to the number without noticing that it is a prefix of another country, some return due to growing curiosity, but all are forced to pay a few tens of dollars more in the phone bill.
Sometimes the victims get several missed calls from the same number, to make them think that someone is urgently looking for them and that it is not a mistake in the number. The numbers you dial are called "extra service" so you can charge them a high fee (as in sex calls). The payment is made through the cellular service provider, so that it actually receives a billing demand for the number from which the call was made, and it is transferred to the provider who mediates between the person making the sting.
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