Our technology editor answers your trickiest tech questions
Hope: it will be more difficult for scam callers to get through from next month. Photo via Getty, posed
Question: My elderly mother keeps falling for phone scams. What can I do? Last December, she tapped on a fake toll fine link in a text message and we had to cancel her credit card. A few weeks ago, she got a fake robot call claiming to be from the Revenue and started to panic. Most of the advice I’ve seen caters for people who are tech-savvy and she’s not. — Kathleen M
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