I just got a call on my cell phone warning me that there was suspicious activity regarding my icloud ID. Thing is… I don’t have an icloud ID. Just posting this as a public service announcement.
we got the Microsoft call…no Microsoft here…
Dang, can’t the scammers get real jobs and earn honest livings?!?!?!
I wonder if we have all stopped getting the IRS calls since I saw there were big arrests in India of the IRS scam perpetrators???
Nomorobo filters out the Microsoft guys. I kind of miss toying with them.
Received a few IRS calls in the last year which I ignored with a laugh.
When mom received a few, she decided to use it as an opportunity to annoy them by asking them lots of strange random personal questions in a stronger than normal accent. Think her record was getting them to stay on for 20 minutes before they grew fed up and finally hang up.
I kept the Windows scammer on the phone for 15 minutes once before he hung up on me.
“Nomorobo filters out the Microsoft guys. I kind of miss toying with them.”
I love nomorobo. I also love the fact that my iPhone can block calls (probably true of other “modern” cell phones). It does prevent me from trying to keep the scammers on the phone for as long as possible, but I could never get even close to the numbers in previous comments.
Nomorobo doesn’t work for my phone 
If I don’t recognize you on my caller ID, you aren’t getting picked up. Please feel free to leave a message.
a group in turkey supposedly has hacked apple and apple is aware and has done a great job of suppressing the story.
there has been very little coverage. that said I assure you that the call is 100% a scam. apple will never call you and professional hackers steal 10/20/100/300 million ids at at a time.(no phone calls)
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-downplays-icloud-blackmail-turkish-crime-family-real-people-affected-2017-3
the scam that you probably got exposed to is probably out of India. the irs/id scams seem to be popular in India.(it costs nothing to call the United States and Canada using a web phone)
I miss the days of the Nigerian prince emails that needs my social security number to transfer me 50 million dollars.
^^I’m with @doschicos .
Listened to a comedian who said “TRUE STORY” that he did the “mess with the phone guy thing”.
Said he got a call about his credit card and he did a 15 minute rant in some heavy accent…which was pretty funny until he realized it really WAS the credit card company calling to tell him his card had been stolen.
Even with the calls from the credit card company I tell them that I’ll call them back. Then I call the number on the back of the card and ask for the fraud dept. Usually it was a legit call but it happened to DS once and when he called back found out there wasn’t any problem. I am glad that consumer fraud was one of the things I taught him when he was young.
I like the video where the guy plays dumb and keeps the scammer on the line for 15 + minutes. He ends up pretends to have bought greeting cards instead of the GIFT card the scammer was insisting he needed to pay some charge.
Got this email today:
Read it in your best foreign criminal accent, it’s more entertaining that way.
You’d think a criminal would proofread a little better. 