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[KingstonsMom]

I don't know why we are all of a sudden getting spam calls from Apple re: the info in our "ICloud" being compromised.

I'm talking about several calls a day for several days now. The phone # just changes.

The funny thing is that we have never owned an Apple device of any kind and I don't even know what "ICloud" is, LOL!

[geezerette]

Same thing used to happen to me with Microsoft when I didn't use their products.

I don't know if I still get any of those calls because I don't answer the phone for an unrecognized number anymore.

[pinbug]

We've also gotten maybe 6 calls every day in January for a week at least. .  We don't answer.  I do have an Icloud account; I went to my Icloud account; nothing wrong there.  

[KingstonsMom]

@geezerette  

I don't answer them either, but this one leaves a message on the answering machine, so I hear it before I block the # with my call blocker, of course they keep changing #'s.

I never answer, if you do they know it's a live line and sell it to every other telemarketer on the planet.

Using the call blocker for so long, I don't really get very many spam calls anymore, till these Apple calls several times a day for several days now.

[geezerette]

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@KingstonsMom wrote:

@geezerette  

I don't answer them either, but this one leaves a message on the answering machine, so I hear it before I block the # with my call blocker, of course they keep changing #'s.

I never answer, if you do they know it's a live line and sell it to every other telemarketer on the planet.

Using the call blocker for so long, I don't really get very many spam calls anymore, till these Apple calls several times a day for several days now.

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@KingstonsMom 

Oh yes, those few that actually do leave a message are a pain.  And they usually start the message half-way through and garbled so you have to replay it to make sure it's just spam and not a real message.  I swear they do that on purpose since when they leave the call back number it's always clear as a bell!😖

[millieshops]

I wonder if those calls are even from Apple -  maybe "pretenders"

[KingstonsMom]

@millieshops 

In my case they are definitely Apple imposters, since I don't own any Apple products and I have no ICloud account.

[KingstonsMom]

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@geezerette wrote:

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@KingstonsMom wrote:

@geezerette  

I don't answer them either, but this one leaves a message on the answering machine, so I hear it before I block the # with my call blocker, of course they keep changing #'s.

I never answer, if you do they know it's a live line and sell it to every other telemarketer on the planet.

Using the call blocker for so long, I don't really get very many spam calls anymore, till these Apple calls several times a day for several days now.

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@KingstonsMom 

Oh yes, those few that actually do leave a message are a pain.  And they usually start the message half-way through and garbled so you have to replay it to make sure it's just spam and not a real message.  I swear they do that on purpose since when they leave the call back number it's always clear as a bell!😖

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@geezerette 

So true!

I have to put my ear up to the answering machine to try to understand the message, but at the end, the call back number is loud and clear, like a neon sign, LOL!

[chrystaltree]

The calls aren't being directed to you.   Some automated system is calling tens of thousands of numbers a day at random in the hopes that someone will fall for whatever scam they are dishing out.    Deleting the number doesn't work because they just call back with a different number.  I've been getting calls like that from a "Vacation specialist" who supposedly is responding to my inquiry.  The problem with that is I haven't made any inquiries  about vacations or anything else travel related.  I know it's a computer generated voice but she sounds so human!  All you can do is hang up like I do and hope the calls stop.  

[chrystaltree]

@millieshops 

The aren't from Apple just like they aren't from Microsoft.  Neither one calls people.  They are scammers who want access to our computers.