907-373-1759

asks for money to complete this call

Caller asked if I would accept a collect call from a prison in Alaska and then said they needed my credit card #, because my account was empty. I hung up.

I have been getting calls from this number every so often for two months. Telling me it's a collect call from someone I cant make out.

called 9 times in an hour, ask for $, do not answer the call, scam

It said it was from goose creek correction thats all i could figure out because it was all in spanish.

This is goose creek jail in wassilla ak. When a call is recieved from this # that means a inmate, ( most likely a close friend or family member that has been jailed was transferred from anchorage jail, and does not have any money left on thier securus account to make calls. This is a last resort option for inmates to try and reach friends and family to let them know there securus account has ram out of funds. Jails now require everyone to pay for every call approx 2-4 $ min. If you recueve a call like this most likely it is a friend or close family member desperately trying to reach you . Keep in mind its very easy to dial a incorrect #  .... there is no way they can scam anyone because giving them your c.c only let's the call connect so the inmate can speak to you . They ask for the c.c to pay for the c.c , it doesn't load money onto any other account!! Next time you should answer, and you never know it could be someone you care about desperately trying to reach out!!! Worst case you loose 2 or 3$ don't be so cheap.

Its not a scam its someone trying to call you thats been arrested in Alaska

Correctional facilities don’t ask for money over the phone during a phone call inmates must have money before making a phone call. We can give money to inmates on a safe and secure government website.
Don’t fall for it!

It wouldn't matter.  No matter what you are guaranteed to be talking to a criminal just as if someone from another country called you.

This is not true for Goose Creek Correctional. To receive a call from this facility the person being called has to set up an account with securus and forward fund the account (they have an app or call in payment options) or they can pay for the individual call as they come in. This is not a scam. It’s how the calls are paid for. It does not add money to an inmates account. It either pays for a single call or you can prepay online. I’m sure I’d you called either Goose Creek Correctional Center or Securus (don’t be lazy, google the numbers) they will tell you the same thing. All your calls are people trying to reach you from jail and this is easily verifiable if anyone has even half a brain to make a simple call to either of the places mentioned above.

So criminals making calls to solicit/scam money from strangers is OK since the crooks are sad and lonely? The money is needed to console them?  I don't think you understand that the calls from this number are not to family members.

You want to give your money, fine, but don't put up posts saying those calls are safe and sending money to scammers is some sort of feel-good civic duty.

I am thinking you are shill since you had no reason to look up a number you know is "good".

I like to think I am neither "cheap" nor "lazy", despite respective blanket assumptions from commentors "Robert" and "Anonymous". I'm also quite confident that if some relative or friend lands in the jug, I will not need to rely on some inmate phone busker as my first and only notice of this career move. Furthermore I am just sick enough of prisoner phone call complaints on this site to have done some homework.

For the subject number, YouMail hosts a large set of call transcripts and recordings, presumably from inmate phone provider Securus, partially corroborating reports here. Sounds like prisoner outbounds can be paid or rejected per-call by a recipient. Commonly an alternate offer is made to press a key or ring some CSR number and create an account, likely akin to loading usage minutes to a conventional phone plan. The canned requests to complete calls function much like traditional Operator Assistance on the old Baby Bell networks.

A key difference is the offer to charge a credit card rather than bill the recipient's phone account directly. Asking for swipe cards of course seems very clumsy and a potential security risk at first blush. For a motive my initial guess was that the request sidesteps the appearance of phone bill "cramming". Taken at face value, the inmate callers cannot control the transaction. File under "the good news" column.

I do see two remaining fraud vectors for these "valid" inmate calls:

One entails simulation of an inmate call service, complete with Caller ID spoofing of the genuine providers. In recent years incarcerated gang members have netted a small fortune while running heinous extortion rackets from a few smuggled mobile phones. A simpler ruse to collect credit card data should be a cakewalk for them.

In the other scenario, I glare straight at major providers like Securus and GTL themselves as the fraud harbors. They capture exclusive rights to service jails and prisons through payola "commissions", financed from the pockets of their grossly overcharged customers, who are lucky to experience anything close to mediocre service for their burden. It's an industry whose players don't want to compete honestly because their parasitic fiefdoms pay too well.

Maybe no place is too low for Securus to stoop for a dollar. Imagine them spraying a certain percentage of misdialed calls, purposely or indifferently, baiting us for a fee into opening their mystery box. Securus habitually charges a few dollars apiece for every step of account management, driving up the cost of getting strung along. Too bad if your overpaid signal fails, Securus is allergic to refunds. What's more, some user complaints suggest weak platform security, reporting compromised bank accounts shortly after credit card exposure.

All said, I don't blame anyone who chafes at ambush calls from a prisoner. I'm more chafed by the cheerleaders here who want us to gamble with our money to answer them. Never mind if we lack reasonable expectation of hearing from a jailbird, as I suspect was true for some past complainants.

Just got called by this scam number.

That’s not true.