Kind of interesting of how folks like to make an extra dollar these days.  Take A Look.  Kind of makes you want to be a touch more on the ball before doing things that others ask of you.

This long distance phone scam causes consumers to inadvertently incur high charges on their phone bills. Consumers usually receive a message telling them to call a phone number with an 809, 284, 649, or 876 area code in order to collect a prize, find out information about a sick relative, etc. The caller assumes the number is a typical three-digit U.S. area code; however, the caller is actually connected to a phone number outside the United States, often in Canada or the Caribbean, and charged international call rates. Unfortunately, consumers don’t find out that they have been charged higher international call rates until they receive their bill.  The Amounts are quite high one should remember, more than what most can really afford.

AT&T recommends the following tips to help avoid the 809 area code scam:

• Return calls to familiar numbers only. As a general rule, return calls from numbers that contain familiar or recognizable area codes. You may call your directory assistance or long distance operator to check the area code location.
• Carefully read your telephone bill. Make sure that you only receive charges from your provider of choice. Ensure you thoroughly understand charges listed on your phone bill, have chosen to do business with all of the listed providers billing for those charges and have authorized additional fees invoiced. If your local service provider has changed, you will receive a final bill from the former provider and a notice of service disconnection.

If you believe that you have been scammed:

• Contact the carrier with whom the charge originated, whose name and toll-free telephone number should be printed on the same bill page as the charge in question. Often, the problem can be resolved with a single phone call.
• If the carrier with whom the charge originated does not agree to resolve the problem, contact AT&T. AT&T will work with you and the carrier to help remove fraudulent charges from the phone bill.

Might not hurt to check your cupboards in case you have a jar or two stuck away.  For us my wife does all ours up fresh from our garden.  One way of making sure what you are eating is safe to eat.  With Precautions of course.  Just another reason that come spring you get to planning out a good size vegetable garden.  I have a spot around forty feet by thirty feet and it supplies all our needs and then some.

OTTAWA—The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded a warning about a number of Barrie Bros. vegetable soups.
The agency says they may contaminated with a bacteria that could cause botulism, a life-threatening illness.
These Barrie Bros. Local Food Company 1892 vegetable soup products, sold in a 744 mL Mason glass jar with a metal lid, are affected by this alert.
These products do not have a lot code or a Best Before date.
Fresh asparagus soup, fresh cauliflower soup, butternut squash soup sweet potato and red pepper soup and potato and leek soup.
The list also includes Jeff Suddaby’s gourmet pumpkin and sweet potato soup and gourmet vegetable barley soup.
There have been no reported illnesses linked to these productsm which have been distributed in Ontario.
Food contaminated with Clostridium botulinum toxin may not look or smell spoiled.