He will call you asking you to call a number with an area code of 809 for an important matters related to your account or whatever trick to lure you into making a return call even if you did not know the person calling you. Doing a return call is your gravest mistake. Its costly making an international call.
Toll fraud is about stealing time to make a call. What they did was to connect to your phone line asking you to call them in an expensive pay-per-use call. This is their trick to let you pay for the long distance especially if they placed a collect call to your phone.
Expensive call will run to thousand dollars that you have to pay if you are not careful of what you are doing. What will be your protection from this crooks?
-Don't entertain a call telling you that he is a phone company employee where you registered. He will request that it is a collect call where you are the one to pay because it was about your membership to their phone company regarding your account. Any future calls will be charge to you.
-If you don't know the person who called you then don't agree to any collect call or return call especially if the telephone number he used is not known to you.
-Don't ever call a number with a code 1-900. It will surely be charged to your phone bill. Don't agree if he tell you to call another phone number for the purpose of continuing the call. Such move will be forwarded to another phone line where the call has a charge.
-Don't listen to a pre-recorded voice messages where you are being told that such a call has a charge to be billed to your account.
-Look for the area code he used before doing your dialing. There are areas covered with very high long distance rate.
-Take caution about faxes, e-mails, voice messages or pager messages telling you to call or an unknown phone number not listed on the directory.
-Observe and report any person tapping your telephone line.
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