888-288-9879

i dont know the # but my man is in jail maybe it can be him who know so if u dont know the # dont pick up or pick up and ask why the [***] u keep call me for thats if u dont know who is callin u

look now i know who is callin me from this # it my baby im on the phone now as im puttin this on so i now its my baby callin to just talk im happy so eveone have a good day

I received a call from this number at 6am!!!  I don't know anyone in jail.

I got calls from this number, too. They might be trying to use your number to make third-party calls. Watch your phone bill. You can call the phone company and have them disable this feature.

i have been getting these calls every 15 min or so for two solid days now and its getting realy old

I recieved a call from this number and it said it was from a prison so I hung up.

pcs is a bunch of liars and they do what ever they want too, long as they collect your money, they say one thing and do another. I hate this company
they cant even speak good english.

It may not be inmates. It may a computerized auto dial program. The reason I believe this is because the operator is a digital voice and the supposed inmate has the same tone and speech pattern every time. PCS makes the money if you mistakeningly accept the call. Moreover, these calls could be coming from other countries. Check your phone bill every month for that phone number. PCS needs to step up help us out. Otherwise, every person working for PCS is a thief.

888-288-9879 OR THE *72 Prison Scam

THIS WAS TAKEN FROM THE VERIZON WEBSITE:

How it works: You receive a call from an operator saying there is an inmate from a correctional facility who needs you to accept a collect call and the associated charges. Once you accept the call, the caller convinces you to hang up your phone, dial in *72 and another phone number. * 72 is the code used to forward your incoming calls to another number, if you have call forwarding service or if it's available on a per-use basis in your local exchange. If you do this, the inmate will then make additional collect calls to your number, but the calls will be forwarded to someone the inmate knows at the number where you forwarded the calls. That person accepts the charges, but they are billed to you. Often you don't realize this has happened until you notice your phone not ringing or you receive your bill with numerous unexpected charges.

How to protect yourself: Never accept collect calls unless you are absolutely sure you know the person calling. Never activate call forwarding unless you need to do it for your own reasons and to a number you know.

I got a cll from this # last night ( I wasn't home to receive it, but my adult son was and it asked if I would accept a collect phone call from this #. They did use my other son's name, but the 1st son thinking it was a scam hung up. Now I can't get in touch with #2 son. I don't know what to do!

Is my DaDDy trying to call me? Cody jake?

calls me everyday on and on............

yayyyyyyy..... now i know who is calling me from this number is collect from jail its my fiance.. omg, didnt hear from hm for days.. SOOOOO HAPPYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

callfrom correctional facility

have been getting these phone calls consistently for a month now.  have used the company before to talk to family but that was 2 years ago and this is  new number that they are now calling!  thanks for the advise to call the cell carrier! i am doing that now and having this number blocked!

Continous phone calls and some stupid recording in Spanish. No idea why they are calling thinking of contacting my lawyer.

[***], i don't know anyone in jail. how did they get mine...?

Call asked my young daughter to press a number to "accept" a call; clearly it's intended to add charges to phone bill, and then collect from provider.

I have received multpile calls from this number. Messages saying inmate from IDOC named Jimmy trying to make a collect call. I know there have been similar scams in the past. I tried to even answer the call and press7 as it says to block number. Did not work! Tired and pissed as H-LL. It is harassing at a rate of four to ten calls a day! I am investigating it and have reported to my phone compant and the FCC, as well as the BBB.

PCS is phone service for prisoners in state and local jails/prisons.

I got one of these a day for 3-4 days till I had enough.

Call 888-288-9879 on the phone you want blocked, wait thru the prompts, confirm the phone,  say no toa dding money to your account ot getting a balance. They will transfer you to a person after a while. They will confirm account ( your phone number again). Explain that your  being harrassed and what the calls stopped. They will ask what state or facility. They assume you have a relationship with some  person in prison and that's why the person in prison has your number. I had to explain that I didn't know anyone in prison, however I was in X state. They said they would block calls to my number from  county prison in X.  I asked if I could ALL prisons blocked, and they said sure. (It's my work phone, if my friends and family call from prison, it will be on personal cell phone anyway.)