Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees $42.55 for a 6-minute collect call? It happened to one Ars reader.
by Nate Anderson June 28 2014 Ars Technica
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[telecom] Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees
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I remember getting a call from (800) COLLECT one evening back in the late nineties. They said that the person calling was from a social networking site that I was on now and then and asked me to accept the charges.
I told them I wouldn't accept the charges. It sounded like a scam to me. I figured that if it was important enough, they'd pay to call me. They didn't. So it obviously wasn't.
I don't accept collect calls from strangers and I never have. And with the low rates of today, there is no reason to call anyone collect anyway.
If I remember right, that was the last time someone called me collect. It has never happened to me since then.
From what you are telling me now, it was a good thing I didn't.
Fred