News About Phone Card Scams

A recent article about phone card scams in the Gotham Gazette profiles a Jamaican immigrant who can only call from her cell phone SIM card, because her fast-paced, high stress single mother working class lifestyle allows her very little time at home, and also very little extra money to pay for a phone. So she ends up getting ripped off by the exorbitant fees charged by the prepaid calling card company.

In other words, it's expensive to be poor.

Especially when it comes to making calls back home overseas. And she did shop around:

"I know about things like Skype that use computers to make calls, but I don't have a computer at home..."

So it's natural to suggest that immigrants who are lucky enough to have a home computer, or an accessible computer, consider using Skype to make cheap international calls. But after investigating the true price of Skype for immigrants, it may not be that much better than a shady phone card scam.

Often the best option is to find cheap phone cards, even for cell phone SIM plans. They are out there, despite the proliferation of charlatans trying to make a buck off the helpless and vulnerable. That's why we are here to help you sort through the bull, and find really good deals on phone cards.