Looks like I’m joining the minority as well…that felt weird to say
A one ring hang up is almost certainly a misdial. I would think you’d have to be pretty bored or paranoid to call it back.
The best “leave 'em guessing”:
“Not yet”
Play it safe and move your contraband off site for a couple months.
I thought only 900 numbers can charge you for calling them. No one would call such a number back. How do the phone companies justify such billing? I guess it is hopeless to expect congress to ban it.
How can this work? Do you have a link that explains this?
Found this article. Looks like it is redirecting to 900 numbers, basically. Part of the charge is an international calling fee, which I assume doesn’t go to the scammer, but the rest of any charge there is comes from the per-minute fee on the 900 number the call is redirected to.
How does a scammer “redirect” a call to a 900 number? The article seems to indicate that scammers are duping people into calling premium rate numbers, not getting them to call ordinary numbers and somehow “transferring” the call to a premium rate number.
Can I start redirecting calls from my mother in law to a 900 number so I don’t have to hear her whine and hopefully teach her a lesson by running up her bill? If not, how can scammers do it when I can’t?
“Hardly, Madam. Your son sells them to me.”
Maybe she was trying to get a hookup too. Parents need dealers too 
You should do exactly what you did. Reach out to the nearest anonymous message board and ask for help.
Does any phone service not provide 900 number blocking by default anymore?
Sometimes I’ll call back if it’s local, but less so now that telemarketers have been using local numbers. (Before, they were never local, whether they were spoofed or not.)
And, yes, it’s for the reason of saving them a return call. In fact, I never call them back unless they’ve called multiple times.
But not if it’s only one or two rings. Heck, I don’t know anyone who would hang up after the third ring.
I believe the expected response is “Are you a cop? 'Cos you have to tell me if you’re a cop.”
It’s not a 900 number call, it’s just similar to how 900 numbers work in the US . The whole deal with the scam is the number looks like it has a US area code, but it’s actually an overseas call to the Caribbean islands, going to a phone system that works differently from ours. Blocking 900 numbers won’t help in this case.
I still don’t get it. The page talks about calling people from a number that looks like it’s an area code in the Detroit region, whereas it is, in fact, the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. As a result, callers who call back are charged an international call from the U.S. to Antigua (something which, by the way, is a result of the North American Numbering Plan whereby several countries share the same system of area codes - couldn’t happen in Europe because there an international call requires you to dial a country code).
I get it so far. But still, the caller’s number is not a premium number akin to the 900 prefix; it’s still a perfectly ordinary landline number, just on Antigua. As a result, you wouldn’t be charged a premium fee, you’d just be charged whatever you phone company charges for a call to another country, which presumably is far, far less than the $19.95 for the first minute plus $9 for any subsequent minute that the article talks about. And what’s more, unlike in the case of premium calls under the 900 prefix, the subscriber who operates the number you’ve called doesn’t get a share of the fee that the caller pays, so I don’t see how this scam would work.
But the operator does get a share of the fee.
Get with it. How do you kiddies survive partying? The answer is always NO followed by “Excuse me officer while I put my clothes back on”
This was assuming someone flushed the stash down the can while you looked for your pants and the cops gave up and just arrested you for looking at them funny. Get off my lawn kids, you can’t even party right.
This question is totally unfair and ludicrous. There is no proof that **therealyankey27 **has sold drugs to her son.
**therealyankey27 **probably gave drugs to her son, to lure him into illicit sexual activity.
So, therealyankey27, have you stopped giving drugs to her son in order to lure him into illicit sexual activity?
But that would require the foreign phone company to be an accomplice in the scam, no?