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The best ways to avoid scam phone calls and texts

What are the best ways to avoid scam phone calls and texts? Have you recently received a text in...

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14.30 3 Jun 2021


The best ways to avoid scam phone calls and texts


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14.30 3 Jun 2021


What are the best ways to avoid scam phone calls and texts?

Have you recently received a text in the middle of the night saying that a supposed package couldn’t be delivered to your house?  

Well, you’re not the only one as a number of phone scams have been going around over the last few weeks. 

Newstalk Technology Correspondent Jess Kelly and Consumer Journalist with the Irish Times Conor Pope answered listeners' questions. 

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