Warning Grand Rapids! Never Answer Calls From These Area Codes!

Ain't technology wonderful. It keeps making our lives so much easier from smart appliances, literally smart cars, shopping, banking, smart phones!

Smart phones? Ouch, there is the rub. Scammers and their phone calls. Oh, my!

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It is absolutely very difficult to tell the difference between a normal, legit phone call and a scammer or artificial intelligence trying to find us. Heavens, my car warranty is expiring! NOT!

What is one to do? Ignore them and DO NOT ANSWER, PERIOD!

Many times my phone will say "probably SCAM," and I never answer if I don't know the number. If it's legit they will leave a message. And even then if they do, you'll know right away if it's a phony.

Our sister station, KLIX News Radio, reported Scam calls cost victims around $30 billion each year. Don’t answer numbers you don’t know and don’t click links in text messages from unknown senders. You can check unknown numbers against a database of known scam numbers online and you can put your phone on do-not-call lists.

Sadly there is no guarantee that this will solve the problem because some of the area codes are now coming from inside the United States. Ugh!

HERE ARE THE AREA CODES YOU SHOULD FOR SURE NOT ANSWER!

767- Commonwealth of Dominica

829 - Dominican Republic

809 - British Virgin Islands

849 - Dominican Republic

649 - Turks and Caicos Islands

473 - Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique

268 - Antigua and Barbuda

284 - British Virgin Islands

218 - Northern Minnesota

712 - Western Iowa

657 - La Palma, California

646 - Manhattan

216 - Cleveland, Ohio

332 - New York City

469 - Dallas, Texas

347 - New York City

876 - Jamaica

Always be aware, and good luck!