Woman purporting to call from Virgin Media and O2. She told me they needed to send me a new 5G-enabled SIM card to replace my current one. I'm neither with Virgin nor O2. And my old-but-reliable phone wouldn't be able to do 5G anyway. I queried her insistence on the new SIM card needing to be supplied by a Virgin or O2. I continued stringing her along to waste as much of her time as possible. She hung up eventually...
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