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Thread ID: 125461	2012-06-30 06:13:00	Telephone Scams again	Woody (710)	PC World Chat

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1284827	2012-07-02 23:34:00	Sorry, Woody. I was not saying that you were thick, I meant that I thought that the people making the calls would have realised by now that most people have heard of these scams and would not be fooled, but they don't seem to have grasped that fact. My apologies. I certainly did not think you were that silly.:o Thanks Paddy, no prob, I think the reason they persist is that even if they only get a 1% hit rate, over many thousands of calls, that can be a lot of dollars. I guess I will have had several hundred calls over the past year or two. The reason I poted this time is that a phone number was available even though it was fudged - normally it has been "private call" Cheers	Woody (710)
1284828	2012-07-03 12:17:00	interestingly there is no country with intn. code 0024 see below: There is no country with the country code 0024. Country codes beginning with +24 have three digits, and are located in Africa. You need one more digit. Three-digit country codes beginning with +24 are in Africa. '00' is a common prefix for international calls, but it is not part of the country code. There are ten country codes in Africa beginning with 24, but you need the next digit to be specific. There is no such code, but many three-digit country codes begin with 24. you need the next digit. 00240 is Equatorial Guinea, 00241 is Gabon etc tho 00249 for Sudan They are all in Africa Read more: wiki.answers.com As you say in the quote "There are ten countries in Africa beginning with 024, but you need the next digit to be specific". In the original post the next digit is "5" hence the country in question is Guinea-Bissau. This info provided by Wiki. Bluenose.	bluenose (14548)
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