When a stranger calls you it is good to be on one’s guard. Chances are that it is either someone who wants to sell you something you don’t want or need or — worse yet — wants to cheat you out of your money. If you are lucky the caller is only wasting your time with something totally uninteresting to you. Fortunately, in 2019 the Federal Communications Commission put into effect a new policy that gives the telephone companies the right to block the calls.
So long you haven’t been infected by the coronavirus, there has been a positive aspect to this disease: a significant decrease in robocalls and spam calls. That was the good news. The bad news is that there has been an increase in malicious calls specifically related to the coronavirus.