Hi 42° | Lo 25°  Missed a Call From Antigua or Jamaica? Do Not
Call Back  New York — If you get an unexpected missed call from
a Caribbean number, don’t call back. It could be a hoax. An
oldie but goodie called the “one-ring scam” is gaining momentum
again and leaving people with fraudulent charges.  As
independent analyst Richi Jennings points out, the scam takes
advantage of a part of the North American Numbering Plan that
gives three-digit area codes to certain Caribbean countries.
People can connect to these numbers from U.S. phones that don’t
have international calling plans even though they are actually
“premium rate” numbers.  In the one-ring scam, a robocaller lets
a call ring just once before hanging up to maximize the chance
of creating a missed call without a person picking up. If
someone does pick up, the robocaller disconnects, and there is
less of a chance that person will be drawn into the scam and
call back.   Between text message scams and Web hacking it can
feel like nothing is safe, but thi