This is a new one

People are being woken up in the middle of the night by a single ring on their phone.

The scammers are hoping that people call the number back out of curiosity or alarm.

The phone number is an African version of a 900 pay per minute number.

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@0x56 I have do not disturb set up with a white list of numbers allowed to ring through. All texts are muted, because if it's an emergency you call. Surprising number of spam texts come at night for me.

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