Area code 473 is the local
telephone
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area code of
Grenada
Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the So ...
,
Carriacou and
Petite Martinique. The 473 area code, which spells GRE, was created during a split from the original
area code 809 which began permissive dialing on 31 October 1997 and ended 31 October 1998.
For calls placed within
Grenada
Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the So ...
,
Carriacou or
Petite Martinique, only the seven-digit local number is dialed. Calls to
Grenada
Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the So ...
from anywhere in the
United States
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or
Canada
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are dialed 1 + 473 + seven-digit
phone number.
Telephone fraud
The 473 area code has been linked to a form of
telephone fraud known as the "one ring scam". The person perpetrating the scam calls the victim via a robodialer or similar means, sometimes at odd hours of the night, then hangs up when the phone is answered with the hope that the victim will be curious enough to call the number back. When the victim does this, an automatic $19.95 international call fee is charged to their account, as well as $9.00/min thereafter. Similar scams have been linked to Antigua (
area code 268), Jamaica (
area codes 876 and 658), the Dominican Republic (
area code 809) and the British Virgin Islands (
area code 284).
See also
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List of NANP area codes
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Area codes in the Caribbean Several countries in the Caribbean participate in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), which is a telephone numbering plan designed after world War II by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for initially the United States and Canada.
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North American Numbering Plan
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References
External links
North American Numbering Plan Administrator* How Does an
833 Area CodeToll-Free Number Work?
Communications in Grenada
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