A week or two ago, I purchased a device from QVC, called “CPR.” As soon as I got it I hooked it up to my phone and it is great!! The purpose of it is to block out and prevent all of the unsolicited calls and scammers from calling you. The unit comes with a list of 5,000 phone numbers that are known to be nuisance calls. And if when I answer the phone and find its one that wasn’t on the list of 5,000, there is a large button to press and that caller’s number gets added to the list of calls you don’t want getting through to be a bother.
I think it is a fantastic product and well worth the $50 price. Eileen From: Eric Oyen Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 1:18 PM To: [MacVisionaries] Subject: possible scam purporting to be from Apple Attention all apple product users.. I recently received a couple of calls on my phone purporting to be from Apple Care notifying me of a breach of their cloud services. Finding this a little "phishy", I called apple care directly and discussed this situation with a customer support rep. He reports that this is a phishing scam as apple will not, under all but the most dire of circumstances, call you about such things. They will attempt to notify by email only or they will require you reset your password credentials via their apple ID website. If you get one of these calls, report it to reportph...@apple.com and include any information you can get (such as caller ID info, time of call, etc). It appears that the spoofers are getting smarter and using a VOIP line and caller ID spoofing service to call phones in an attempt to build a list of active numbers for use in other scams (like IRS, your local bank, etc.). anyway, report these calls as you get them. thanks, Eric Oyen -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
