You forgot 202 and 771 (Washington DC)! All of those calls are a scam wanting money!!

 

Ken, the "duh" is to me... I didn't catch that those were area codes and not country codes from your first post.

Funny thing, in college, studying some telecom classes and learning about the NA Numbering system at the time, I probably could tell you the ones in use then (703/804) as well as most of the US at the time. Now, not a chance.

 

Having worked in the telecom industry I could have told you most of the area codes before they started expanding the number of them. Now I can't remember my own area code.

 

Well if they stop changing it, I might be able to.

 

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I've seen a few of those area codes show up in my "recent calls" log. Oh, and VA now has 571 area code just to add to the confusion.

 

Speaking of scams and hacks, my wife had her checking acct.hacked this morning of $2,000.00. The generous Pricks left her $15.00. She contacted her bank. They cancelled her account, issued her a new card and said that the money would be back in her account in 10 days. We are so sick of this shit but don’t know what can be done about it,

 

It is most likely that someone got her debit card number. We got rid of our debit card after a friend got cleaned out to the tune of tens of thousands. Dumb to keep that much it their checking account and dumb to have a debit card tied to it!

Good that you caught it quickly!

 

I agree, never use debit cards .... risk is too high.

 

So you don't use ATM's? I've used ATM's everywhere in my travels and they're the best way I've found to get cash.

My credit union allows asks me to place a limit on how much can be withdrawn, so that way if it is used illegally, I am limited to the initial hit before the CU refunds my money.

 

In theory unless a skimmer has been installed an ATM is a secure environment unlike say a grocery store or an online purchase.