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Answering your scams concerns
Q: My mum doesn’t live near me, and I worry she may receive this sort of call, how can I protect her?
Scambusters say: “Consider getting a call blocker or asking for the phone provider to put certain bars on the landline.
"Do the Friends Against Scams training and cascade those messages to your mum.
"If you think they have been targeted by a scam, it's key to report it so that we can drive up the intelligence in the fraud space.”