{"id":28623,"date":"2019-11-01T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=28623"},"modified":"2019-10-21T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:54:14","slug":"ignore-unsolicited-calls-and-texts-from-apple-and-other-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/ignore-unsolicited-calls-and-texts-from-apple-and-other-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore Unsolicited Calls and Texts from Apple and Other Tech Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don\u2019t want to belabor the point, but multinational tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google will never<\/em> call or text you personally out of the blue. So if you get a call or text purporting to be from such a company, it\u2019s 99.9% likely to be a scam, and you should ignore it regardless of whether the caller ID seems legitimate. If you\u2019re still worried, look up the company\u2019s tech support phone number separately\u2014never respond directly to such a call or tap a link in a text\u2014and discuss the situation with the support reps. Or contact us, and we\u2019ll talk it through with you.<\/p>\n

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We don\u2019t want to belabor the point, but multinational tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google will never call or text you personally out of the blue. So if you get a call or text purporting to be from such a company, it\u2019s 99.9% likely to be a scam, and you should ignore it regardless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,124,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-security","category-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Apple-text-scam.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-7rF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26158,"url":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/take-screenshots-to-aid-tech-support\/","url_meta":{"origin":28623,"position":0},"title":"Take Screenshots to Aid Tech Support","author":"computeradv","date":"January 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"If you experience something weird on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, it\u2019s essential to get a record of what happened. 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