809 Area Code Scam Foretold and Confirmed in Alphabetics Bible Code

New Testament lexicon word and page numbers 809 foretell scammers on commission with foreign telephone companies urging calls to British Virgin Islands.

  Introduction

These warnings from reputable sources:

Various alerts are now circulating warning consumers not to respond to phone, pager, or email requests to dial a number beginning with the 809 area code to "settle an unpaid account" to "collect a wonderful prize," etc. According to the alerts, the area code is in the Caribbean and can be set up as a "pay-per-call" number (like 900 numbers in the U.S.).  People who respond to these requests can get stuck with a whopping phone bill for an international call.

-- About.com

Can easily cost you $100 or more.

-- ScamBusters

Area code 809 belongs to the British Virgin Islands and is an international long distance charge.  When those in the Continental United States respond to this area code, they incur huge telephone charges.  Scam artists have taken advantage of this by striking commissions deals with foreign phone companies.

-- Better Business Bureau ALERT

Having been informed of this scam by a friend (later confirmed), I thought I would look up number 809 using the Alphabetics word-number code techniques to see if it had any commentary about this scam.

(p.s. If this is your first exposure to "Alphabetics" you might want to glance at an introductory document or read a quick teaser.)

Word number 809 in the New Testament Lexicon (Zodhiates) means as follows:

809 "FP0µT< aschemon (a, without; and schema, outward shape, figure) Uncomely, indecent.
Syn: (36), ignoble; (824), out of place, improper; (150), shameful.
Ant: (2104), noble; (2887), orderly decorous, modest; (4586), honorable; (1384), approved, acceptable.

That fits!

On page 809 of Zodhiates Complete Word Study:  New Testament are the following words:

2552 kakopatheia Suffering evil, bearing affliction

2553 kakopatheo To suffer evil or afflictions

2554 kakopoieo To do evil. Equivalent to doing that which appears to be mischievous or evil as perceived by another.

2555 kakopoios Pernicious, injurious, evil, behaving in a bad way.

2556 kakos Bad, worthless externally. Of a soldier, cowardly. Evil, wicked.

These fit the scam artists and their effect on their unwitting victims.

by Sterling D. Allan; Manti, Utah; January 7, 2000

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Page posted by Sterling D. Allan January 7, 2000
Last updated on August 08, 2003
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