Technology
Phone scammers: ‘Give me £1,000 to stop calling you’ – BBC News
The rise of scam calls seems relentless – but can anything be done about them?

By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter
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image captionMost adults have had some sort of scam call but the elderly are particularly targeted
When my landline rings (yes, I still have a landline), it is only ever going to be either my mum, my mother-in-law or a scam caller.
These days, the mum chats are far outnumbered by the scams.
Last week, fed up with their frequency, I asked the caller, who claimed to be from Microsoft’s technical department, where she had got my number….
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