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  • 09-01-2014 7:45pm
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    thehouses
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭


    Hey, got a text from +6745599388. The text read "call me back please urgent 006745599388." When I went to countrycode.org, it seems to be a number off the coast of Papua New Guinea with an area code of 674. Anybody else come across this scam?


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    nava
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 4,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭nava


    thehouses wrote: »
    Hey, got a text from +6745599388. The text read "call me back please urgent 006745599388." When I went to countrycode.org, it seems to be a number off the coast of Papua New Guinea with an area code of 674. Anybody else come across this scam?

    SCAM not sure how but I think a premium number in that country so quite expensive to be call from here


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    thehouses
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭thehouses


    nava wrote: »
    SCAM not sure how but I think a premium number in that country so quite expensive to be call from here

    It absolutely is, there must be money in this for them given that these schemes constantly crop up.


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    Kevcol
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Kevcol


    Got that too last Saturday. Looked up on the net and loads of other people from Ireland were after getting it too. Some people were saying that it could be linked to Snapchat getting hacked earlier this month.


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    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Did you mean to title Weird Post?


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    thesandeman
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    Got it the other day as well. Never had Snapchat though so we can rule that out.


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    thehouses
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭thehouses


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Did you mean to title Weird Post?

    I did haha - "i before e, except after c." Guess I typed too fast.


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