According to the Wikipedia, a Collect Call  is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called party's expense. That sounds quite simple! Most of the telecom operators allow such billing, with the consent of the called party. The Collect Call feature has been built to help those who do not have access to own phones and need to use phones of others, to make calls. For example, people at a detention center, prison or a hospital.  So how does this friendly feature turn into a scam?! 

According to a recent release by the Consumer Fraud Report, a...