Phone scam affects Windows only? Canadian sense of humor...

[Christopher Browne]

I haven't noticed that DNCL decreased my spam calls at all overall.

I cancelled my MBNA credit card, as they were a prime caller trying to
upsell additional services like insurance.  Six months later, no more from
them.  I was similarly pleased about dropping Robbers Mobile in favor of
Wind, who pester wildly less.  Bell calls a few times a year to try upsell,
and that is specifically permitted under DNCL.

However, there was a dramatic increase after DNCL, quite possibly purely
coincidental rather than causal, of calls appearing to be from the Indian
subcontinent that were dramatically scammy.  I have heard rumor that some
Indian call centres lost contracts for real work and started freelancing
the Windows Service Centre scam, and that seems quite believable.

I stopped getting calls from moving services after DNCL, but there's still
quite a lot of phone "spam" going around.  I'm a little surprised that it
has been several months since my last Windows scam call; perhaps it's
waning.  I suppose I should have recorded dates in a diary for statistical
purposes.
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