Robo-calls

“Don’t answer the phone,” I exclaim. “If it’s that important, they can leave a voicemail.”
My iPhone has caller-ID. If I don’t recognize the caller, I don’t answer.
What happens when scammers take over caller-ID?
The national TV-news notes the increasing number of robo-calls by charities, scammers, etc.
I get maybe three-to-four per day. I never answer. Only legitimate phonecalls get answered; that is, people in my iPhone contact-list.
I got one the other day. On my voicemail “This is an emergency call from Microsoft. Yer ‘key’ is about to expire. After it does yer Microsoft applications will no longer work.”
Really?
WE SHALL SEE!
I got one of these calls some time ago. Hellfire and damnation if I didn’t immediately call back.
One of my computer apps was supposedly expired.
Funny, I could still use it. Weeks passed, and it still worked.
Despite prediction of ‘pyooter-Armageddon.
Beyond that, if my Microsoft “key” were to actually expire — and I don’t think it ever does; at least not the software license — I bet Microsoft, the dreaded “dark-side” of computing, so I’m told — would be plying my e-mail wanting me to re-up.
So just in case my Word© and Excel© stop working, I’ll keep the voicemail.
But the apps keep working.

• Some users of Apple computers consider Microsoft, etc to be “the dark-side.” I use an Apple myself; this rig a MacBook Pro.