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'Your computer has a virus' cold call con artists on the rise – Microsoft

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The downside of all this

Essentially, due to the flood of spoofed crap calls, I've completely lost the use of my landline. I just turn off the ringers and use it for outgoing calls only. Nobody can ever call me on it because if I don't do the above, it rings several times a day with crap calls that just waste my time.

I can protect my cell phone better, using an app the blocks any call not in my contacts, although it does allow them to leave a voice message (for those few calls I get from stranger which I actually want).

It's too bad we can't eliminate these sort of pests. Put them all on the B Ark, I say.

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