{"id":49017,"date":"2014-02-19T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/americans-warned-to-screen-caribbean-calls-as-phone-scam-escalates"},"modified":"2014-02-19T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:31:30","slug":"americans-warned-about-caribbean-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/02\/americans-warned-about-caribbean-phone-scam","title":{"rendered":"Americans Warned About Caribbean Phone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/americans-warned-to-screen-caribbean-calls-as-phone-scam-escalates\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" alt=\"Americans warned to screen Caribbean calls as phone scam escalates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/thumbnail11.php\" width=\"352\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just last month, police departments across Utah were warning cell phone users to avoid being scammed by not answering calls from Grenada\u2019s 473 area code. Now, as the scam is cropping up nationwide and the calls\u2019 points of origin have increased, the warning has been extended to the Caribbean as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Protection Office has received Washington reports of a scam hitting cell phone users around the country involving calls from Grenada, as well as Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, and \u201cother Caribbean islands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), it\u2019s called the \u201cOne Ring Scam\u201d and works like this: The phone rings with an unfamiliar number that doesn\u2019t identify the caller but the area code may show it\u2019s from a Caribbean island.<\/p>\n<p>Before the phone is answered, the caller hangs up and doesn\u2019t leave a message. Should the recipient hit the \u201ccall back\u201d button to return the call, he or she gets slapped with a US$19.95 fee for an international call, and pays as much as US$9 a minute while on the line.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid being scammed, Allison Dempsey-Hall, a spokeswoman for Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, said a good policy is not to answer calls from numbers you don\u2019t recognize and allow them to go to voicemail, where you can screen them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbean360.com\/news\/1106682.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at www.caribbean360.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Protection Office has received reports of a scam hitting cell phone users around the country involving calls from Grenada, Antigua, Jamaica, and \u201cother Caribbean islands.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":49018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,31,43],"class_list":["post-49017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-crime","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}