{"id":7048,"date":"2019-02-01T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:26:26","slug":"ignore-unsolicited-calls-and-texts-from-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/ignore-unsolicited-calls-and-texts-from-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore Unsolicited Calls and Texts from Tech Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don\u2019t want to belabor the point, but multinational tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google will <em>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 MacWorks and we\u2019ll talk it through with you.<\/p>\n<p>Do not hesitate to reach out to MacWorks, at no charge, if you are ever in doubt. We will always be happy to work with you to make sure that your data and computer are not compromised.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6919\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ignore-unsolicited-calls-and-texts-from-apple-and-other-tech-companies.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ignore-unsolicited-calls-and-texts-from-apple-and-other-tech-companies.png 642w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple-text-scam-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Apple-text-scam-300x300.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,184,69,106,112,111,109,104],"tags":[786,787],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consultants","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mac-virus","category-malware","category-security","tag-malware","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}