Inmates are Ingenious!
Inmates in Illinois’ Cook County prison have figured out a good way to call their friends and loved ones for free—they just get unsuspecting folks to forward all their calls.
Cook County prison inmates posing as Sheriffs are scamming St. Louis households with calls that start with a request to aid someone who has just been in an accident by calling a number that starts with *72. The prefix activates call forwarding, allowing all incoming calls to ring at an alternate number; the calls are then billed to the victim.
Very smart. I’m surprised to hear this works because my understanding has always been that all calls from jail/prison begin w/a recording telling the recipient of the call where the call originated. Apparently that’s not true everywhere, or perhaps it depends on whether the person is using a calling card….
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Where I worked over the summer the calls from inmates would first play a recorded message of the inmate sayilng their name. The problem with this was that the inmates name was recorded during their first phone call, and they could not change it. This meant we had one inmate who’s name was: “Pick up the phone bitch!”
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