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	Collect call - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A collect call in the USA and Canada or reverse charge in the UK and other countries (or calling collect) is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called party's expense.
		In the past, collect calls were only possible as an operator-assisted call, but with the introduction of computer-based telephone dialing equipment, it is now possible to place a collect call without using an operator.
		More collect calls are made on Father's Day than any other day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collect_call (168 words)

	Call For Action -- Publications - Smart Calls
		Operator-assisted calls charge a fee for using the operator and the per-minute rate is higher.
		If a collect call is billed to someone who is not a customer of the carrier whose services were used to place the call, a surcharge is added.
		Use a company's 800 number to place a collect call instead of dialing "0." Unless you want to pay the highest rates of all, don't make a collect call "person-to-person." Instead, use a service that offers a single low rate regardless of when you place the call.
	www.callforaction.org /publications/smart_calls/collect.asp (116 words)

	Collect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collects appear in the liturgy of the Mass of the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and some other rites.
		Traditionally, a collect consists of a single sentence, although this is often accomplished through non-standard punctuation, with a colon or semi-colon taking the place of a period.
		In the modern use, the collect is spoken or chanted by the celebrant, and follows the invocation "Let us pray" usually without a (significant) period of silent prayer, and may or may not employ the greeting dialog ("The Lord be with you / And also with you").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collect (795 words)

	Mexico Collect Call Scam
		Consumers report that they have been deceived into accepting a collect call from a particular family member when, in fact, the call is from a stranger.
		An operator calls the consumer's residential telephone number and tells the consumer he/she has a collect call from a family member who has an emergency or an important message.
		Specifically, consumers should ask the operator to have the person placing the collect call speak his name, instead of allowing the operator to say the name of the person placing the collect call.
	www.fcc.gov /cgb/consumerfacts/mexicoscam.html (539 words)

	Contact: Sam Thompson (505) 222-9042 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The scam tends to target households with a Hispanic surname with a collect call from an alleged relative with the same surname.
		Although the recipient of the call may hang up quickly when they realize that the caller is not a relative, the damage is done.
		Call the clearinghouse listed on your bill and register a complaint (this may be Zero Plus Dialing, a third-party billing service, who list their 800 number on the bill);
	www.ago.state.nm.us /pio/pressrel/2001/CollectCalls.htm (528 words)

	ekit, About
		Using any touch tone phone, dial the access number for the country you are calling from, then follow the voice prompts.
		InternetCall lets you make calls directly from your computer to anyone, anywhere in the world for as low as 2c per minute.
		Callback lets you make international calls using a landline phone from over 100 countries to anywhere in the world for cheaper per minute rates than our Toll-free service.
	www.goabroad.ekit.com /ekit/About/MakingPhonecardCalls (663 words)

	Cons, Frauds and Scams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There is a new collect call scam that is really a form of identity theft.
		The caller claims to be calling from a hospital or some other emergency situation.
		The caller states that it is a collect call, and once the consumer accepts the charges, the caller comes on the line posing as the operator.
	www.cityofmesa.org /police/fraud/collect_call.asp (142 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: #-9-0 Phone Scam
		A scam artist places a call to an unsuspecting person and the caller says he or she is testing mobile (cellular) telephone circuits or equipment.
		handle their calls (provided that pressing '9' is the signal to obtain an outside line, andthere are no restrictions placed on outgoing calls — as many of us know, some employers configure their phone systems so that employees cannot make long-distance calls from their desks).
		The collect call is from the Cook County Correctional Facility".
	www.snopes.com /fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp (1531 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: We Love You - Call Collect
		Historically, more collect phone calls are made on Father's Day than on any other day of the year.
		In 1998, Dave Johnson, a spokesman for AT&T's corporate headquarters in New Jersey, said, "Father's Day is our biggest day for collect calls, not just the biggest holiday, but the biggest day of the year." These calls are inclined to be longer than the average, too.
		Those feeling overcome with pity for the many men whose progeny call on their special day only to stick them with the bill should consider that Mother's Day is second on the list for collect calls.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/fathersday/collect.asp (578 words)

	Collect Call charges and company numbers, Instructions and faq's
		If you need to call home or someone in an emergency and you don't have any calling card cell phone or any other option, and if you only use it on rare occasion, then this type of service will be useful.
		When you make a collect call, it costs you nothing, but the person you call will be charged only if they answer the phone and accept the charges.
		Dial collect call numbers (some of them listed bellow) and follow the automated voice or the live-person instructions.
	www.talktohome.com /main/Ccalls.htm (670 words)

	Telkom SA Limited
		A Collect Call is a reverse charge call where the called party.
		A Collect Call is a reverse charge call where the called party, on acceptance of the call, pays the charge.
		The automatic service is driven by voice prompts; the call is accepted and connected only when the called party enters the necessary acceptance code.
	www.telkom.co.za /athome/services/autocollectcall/index.html (260 words)

	1-800-COLLECT FAQs
		Calling options and rates for 1-800-226-2727 (Collect en Español) are the same as for 1-800-COLLECT.
		If you are able to reach 1-800-COLLECT, but after entering the phone number you wish to call, you hear a message stating that collect calls can not be completed to the number, there may be a block on the phone number.
		It comes in handy when you are calling your brother or sister but would rather have your parents pay for the call.
	www.1800collect.com /docs2/sub_info.html (605 words)

	South Dakota DOC-FAQ-Inmate Debit Phone Account
		The call recipient will not be charged for a call on their monthly phone bill under the debit system.
		Collect calls made to areas not under Qwest and T-Netix provider abilities may be subject to different conditions and rates.
		The cost of a collect call will continue to be charged to the recipient at rates established by the phone companies and approved by the respective regulating agency.
	www.state.sd.us /corrections/FAQ_Inmate_Debit_Phone_Account.htm (768 words)

	Careless Dialing Could Cost You Money
		The charge for the misdialed call is two or more times higher than it would have been had you reached the carrier you intended to use.
		If you placed the call from a public (hotel, airport, etc.) phone or payphone, the FCC has rules that require the provider to orally identify itself before your call is connected and billed.
		When a collect call is connected, listen for an identification of the service provider before accepting the charges.
	www.fcc.gov /cgb/consumerfacts/carelessdialing.html (782 words)

	Collect Call From Planet X Do ou really want to know who's on the line?
		In that latter category - commonly called the New Age - a legend has grown up over the past 20 years about a mystery planet, sometimes called "Nemesis" or "Nibiru," attended by arcane biblical references and fantasies of super-intelligent space travelers.
		When you get that collect call from Planet X - when some utterly sincere individual attempts to apprise you of the hottest new details of this latest apocalyptic threat to life on Earth - just hang up the phone.
		John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and had a brief flirtation with several Pleiadian princesses before he discovered that most humans are frightened animals who must lie in order to live.
	www.rense.com /general33/call.htm (2087 words)

	How to Make a Collect Call - eHow.com
		Collect calls are ideal for when you're stranded and out of change...
		Be careful - Be careful about making collect calls from foreign countries into the United States if they do not have their rates stated.
		I was charged $60 for a ten minute call from Mexico to the United States.
	www.ehow.com /how_478_make-collect-call.html (272 words)

	MACC -- Collect Call Gouging
		Calls to prisons are forbidden so inmates are compelled to call out at exhorbitant rates.
		Also, prisoners should be allowed to call approved toll-free numbers, and in the case of collect calls, there should be no surcharge, she said.
		Collect calls are the only way the state's 70,000 prisoners can phone the outside world.
	macc.4mg.com /prisphones.html (1574 words)

	Other penal systems offer personal phone accounts, allowing inmates to dial directly at less expense
		Many families cannot or can barely afford collect calls, which are far more expensive than direct calls.
		The county expects to collect about $1.2 million in commissions from collect calls placed at the jail and Shuman Juvenile Detention Center this year.
		The state of Pennsylvania, which has only allowed collect calls, is making arrangements to set up phone accounts in its prisons, too.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20021007collectcalls1007p2.asp (764 words)

	Collect Call
		Collect Call is a gathering place for historical collects (pronounced CALL-eckts) from the Universalist tradition, and to a lesser degree, the Unitarian tradition.
		On occasion, a small essay on the use of collects, their history, and biographies of known Universalist collect authors will be posted.
		Some collects have a particular position, such as the first collect (conventionally "for purity") and the concluding prayer.
	www.universalistchurch.net /collectcall/index.html (3889 words)

	Action: AT&T won't collect on collect call
		On Jan. 16, the phone rang and the operator said: "I have a collect call.
		Will you accept it?" I asked: "Who is it?" She repeated: "I have a collect call.
		When I called AT&T, I was told this was considered a completed call and the charges couldn't be removed from my bill.
	www.sptimes.com /News/041201/Action/ATT_won_t_collect_on_.shtml (911 words)

	Seebach Exhibit 7: Spurious collect call charges - a new scam? "OANWEB.COM"
		Call SBC and tell them that the number is always busy, and I called the collect number shown on my bill and it was not a working number.
		I called Verizon and the customer service woman I spoke to said that they were well aware of complaints about OAN Services and she alone gets about 20 calls a day from frustrated customers.
		When I called, the Nationwide agent readily agreed to drop the collect call fees (within two billing cyles), but claimed not to be able to help with the directory assistance call charged through Teleseven, LLC and gave me a number to call.
	www.seebs.net /log/archives/000237.html (10414 words)

	Rico Mariani's Performance Tidbits : When to call GC.Collect()
		Consider calling GC.Collect() if some non-recurring event has just happened and this event is highly likely to have caused a lot of old objects to die.
		Now you can call GC.Collect() because it's less likely the user will restore the app than it is for her to do something else in the app right after she closes the form.
		I can't agree more that calling GC.Collect is harmful in many cases, but how do I act if I see GC not working as expected.
	blogs.msdn.com /ricom/archive/2004/11/29/271829.aspx (3739 words)

	Corpus Christi and Coastal Bend Law & Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She soon received a collect call from someone in Mexico claiming to have found the dog.
		This appears to be the latest twist in common scam involving international collect calls, especially in areas along the Mexico border.
		When you receive a collect call, always ask the operator where the call originated and what the per-minute charge will be.
	www.caller2.com /2002/newsapp/3049.cfm (740 words)

	Bogus Operation: One Call Communications, Inc. dba OPTICOM, Zero Plus Dialing Inc. (ZPDI)
		Collect call from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA pdi.com
		The collect call was handled by OPTICOM, a division of One Call Communications (onecall.net).
		These crooked companies earn their profits through a business practice called "keep customers uninformed, make the fine print difficult to read and understand, and make the information hard to find." Well, it doesn't have to be that way.
	www.bogusoperation.com /operators/opticom.html (622 words)

	AT&T Military Headquarters \| Deployed Overseas
		Calling collect or charging calls to a commercial credit card are the least cost-effective ways of paying for international calls.
		The special rate for collect calls from Kuwait to the U.S. is $0.50 per minute with a $1.50 surcharge per call, and from Iraq to the U.S it is $0.75 per minute and $1.50 surcharge per call.
		In some countries you can also charge ATandT calls to a major commercial credit card, but again, the cost is higher because there is no overall special military pricing offered with credit card billing (except for Kuwait and Iraq which pricing is the same as for collect calls stated above).
	www.usa.att.com /military/camp/collect_calls.jsp (194 words)

	DLD 77-3 - NEW TIJUANA PHONE SCAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Most calls originated from Tijuana and other border areas, but tourist destinations such as Cancun and Puerto Vallarta were also named in consumer complaints.
		One long-distance carrier told Consumer Action that a collect call from Tijuana to anywhere in the U.S. costs $4.99 for the first minute, $4.49 each additional minute plus a $1.35 per minute "international transport" fee.
		Consumers are encouraged to be savvy about collect call rates and to learn how to access the long-distance carrier of their choice when making calls from pay phones at home and abroad.
	www.thedigest.com /77/77-3.html (773 words)

	Frequently asked Questions about Collect Calls
		A: 800 CALL 4 LESS is a universal toll free number that will make your life easier when making collect, calling and credit card calls.
		Just dial 1 800 CALL 4 LESS (1-800-225-5453) when you are in U.S. or 00 800 CALL 4 LESS when traveling abroad from any phone to any other phone that accepts collect calls.
		Pick up the phone and call someone and let him or her know how smart you are by saving money.
	www.800call4less.com /faqs.html (412 words)

	Siena College - Collect Calls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You may place collect calls to another number off campus, but you may not accept any.
		Collect calls are associated only with the room number, not with a PSC.
		If no one admits to accepting such a call, IandTS will bill a pro-rata share of the call cost to each student sharing that line.
	www.siena.edu /technology/phones/collect.asp (113 words)

	RCN Customer Support - Phone Troubleshooting: Cannot Receive Collect Calls
		RCN does not bill for Collect Calls made from another provider's telephone, which includes payphones.
		Some customers cannot receive collect calls because that company relies on the local carrier for billing.
		Since RCN does not participate in third party billing that company does not have a means of billing you for that collect call, and therefore will not allow the call to be completed.
	www.rcn.com /customer/phone/cannot_receive_collect_calls.php (260 words)

	Carrot Top, the most grating spokesman on TV. - By Rob Walker - Slate Magazine
		The one I saw the other night is called "Race Top," and it's as good an example as any.
		In another ad, Top is on a date at a fancy restaurant—and he suggests that the lady make a collect call.
		That group is supposedly a key market for collect calls; ATandT says its primary target is the 18- to 24-year-old age group, with 12- to 17-year-olds as the secondary target.
	www.slate.com /id/2082430 (1432 words)

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