Consumer protection agencies and telecommunication watchdogs frequently warn the public about fraudulent international and premium-rate phone scams utilizing specific overseas or Caribbean area codes designed to trigger massive toll charges via Wangiri or callback scams. Five notorious international area codes that consumers should exercise extreme caution when receiving unexpected calls from include +1 (268) originating from Antigua and Barbuda, +1 (473) belonging to Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique, +1 (649) associated with the Turks and Caicos Islands, +1 (809), +1 (829), and +1 (849) located in the Dominican Republic, and +1 (876) tied to Jamaica. Scammers often let a phone ring just once to prompt an expensive missed-call notification, trapping unsuspecting victims who call back into exorbitant international connection fees split with illicit telecom operators.