If you've ever made an international phone call, you know that other countries have numbering systems that differ from those used in the U.S. and Canada.
Most of them, that is.
For reasons I have yet to discover, another nation shares the same ten-digit format, as the aforementioned countries: Jamaica, whose area code is 876.
Unless you have offshore acquaintances, don't drop your guard and pick up the phone if you get an 876 call, as it is almost certainly a scam. And for heaven's sake don't return the call, because all it will bring you is grief - that, and costly international phone charges, which apply regardless of how many minutes you have on your calling plan.
Quick question if I may.
ReplyDeleteI can understand you being charged if you make the call.
Yet, if you receive and answer an 876 call, are you being billed, aside from your usual local airtime rates/minutes?
thanks,
Brent
Brent,
DeleteOutside of the time being counted against his airtime rates/minutes, I am not aware of my father ever being billed for answering calls from Jamaica.
Sorry for the late response,
SOS