I received a call from a 547 area code. The caller had an East Indian accent and I was immediately suspicious about the call. She said that she was Windows Technical Support and she tells me that my Windows machine has been violated numerous times. At this point, I knew it was a scam so I played along to see what she wanted me to do.
I challenged her to prove to me that she is monitoring my machine. When she indicated the ASSOC trick I knew this call was a full fledge scam, and proceeded to end the call.
Both my sister-in-law and my parents, like I are using VoIP for our land line calls. We all use voip.ms. I’ve been using them for years and they are reliable and dependable. They also allow you to filter calls, which I used to block all area codes from 545 to 550, because these are invalid area codes. I learned about these area codes after the call.
VoIP is not only about saving costs. Its hidden values also include call filtering as I used above, as well as call forwarding to a group of numbers, and detail call auditing. I use all these features frequently.