Phone is NOT compromised by a foreign country!
@Jackalyn (7558)
Oxford, England
November 24, 2018 3:14pm CST
Now, in terms of scammers, I heard it all. My Mum, in her eighties rang to say she just put the phone down on someone saying, "We want to advise you your phone is compromised by a foreign country."
She is getting very good at calling out scammers. Seems like you get to 80 and they see you coming, but my mum, having worked out that most of these calls are scams, calls their bluff.
Not sure anyway, what use "Your Father is driving me nuts" is to any foreign country. Or descriptions of his bowel movements. (Mum is his carer and so I listen to that stuff to keep her sane as Dad is paraplegic, doubly incontinent and descending into dementia.)
Our conversations are hardly going to compromise the country!
Now, if my Nan, who worked for MI5 had been alive, it might have been a cause for concern.
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@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
24 Nov 18
We are also plagued by such calls here in New Zealand. You can tell them coming by the long silence between when you pick up the phone until the caller speaks. Your mother should thank the caller and proceed to inform them about your father's bowel movements and ask if they can fix it 
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@Jackalyn (7558)
• Oxford, England
26 Nov 18
Mum got very wise after she got scammed, realised it and high tailed it to the bank and got the police involved and I think, her money back. Most of the time she cannot understand what the scammers are saying anyway, so she puts the phone down and rings me to tell me she just put the phone down. My day is punctuated by such calls...
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@celticeagle (189874)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Nov 18
Sounds like the scammers are her entertainment.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17240)
• China
25 Nov 18
It seems that Your Mum is still in possession of all her faculties in her eighties and isn't to be imposed upon.
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@Jackalyn (7558)
• Oxford, England
25 Nov 18
They seem to think old means daft. They have a force to reckon with in my Mum.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
26 Nov 18
this is why i took out our landlane.ma kept answering scam calls.
