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Phone scams

What I learned by chatting with Chinese robocallers

by Scott Tong
Oct 22, 2019
Those Chinese-language phone scams are on the rise again.
Every robocall begins with a canned message.
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Why the Do Not Call list won't save you from robocalls

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Jan 24, 2018
It was a great idea when it started. Now, it's become a bit of a joke.
A pedestrian using his cellphone walks past a boarded establishment showing skeleton heads with cellphones in Los Angeles in January.
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