If You Think Phone Spam Is Bad in the US, Try Picking Up in Argentina
More than one out of every three calls to Americans from numbers not in their contacts lists were spam in the fourth quarter of last year—and we can take some relative pride in that, because many other countries have a much bigger phone-spam problem.
They said they were from the Halifax bank and that somebody had used my credit card to make an Apple payment. They said they had refused the payment but that I should call them on a number they gave me. I contacted Halifax who said it was not them.
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