Claimed to be John calling from BT. Ask if I was the "main user" of the internet connection, then asked if I knew about a "strike" about 10 days ago. This may have been a reference to the CrowdStrike upgrade failure, but I didn't know what he meant and said so. He then hung up. I strongly suspect that he was going to tell me they had detected that I was vulnerable and was going to use this to persuade me to install his malware.
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- Number type: Landline
- Number range allocated to: Telecom2 Limited
- Area: Chepstow
- Area code: 01291
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