[Asterisk-Users] country code list

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On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:16 -0500, Kevin Scott wrote:
> I'm curious, for a $2511/min call, which +1 number was this?  +1900?
> 
> Kevin
809.  It was set up as a premium number in that country.  While that was
an extreme case it did aparently happen back in the 90s sometime.  And
because the country in question (I forget exactly which one) didnt
require it there was no recording at the begining of the call saying
that it was a premium number, nor anything saying what the rate was.

Because of the way things ended up the telcos told the company there
they had to collect themselves (they didnt) and didnt charge their
customers.  It was in a few newspapers (I read about it in the NJ Star
Ledger at the time, but that may have been an AP story I dont know now,
just that was the only paper I read at that time and I know roughly
where I lived when I read it, and do recall it was back when I acutally
read paper based newspapers).

Most of the scammers are smarter than to try something to insane, get a
few dollars here and there, so it is a legitimate problem.  I have only
read one story with that amount, but I would imagine that it goes on far
more, just with a $1-2 per minute charge instead ...


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