Indian scammers forced me to give up landline

For me, two news stories in Issue 670 were connected on a personal level. First, on page 7, you explained how Indian police had raided over 70 call centres targeting Brits (why is it always us?) with scams. Good for them. Then a few pages later, in ‘Question of the Fortnight’, you quoted the figure that landline calls fell from 103 billion minutes in 2012 to 32 billion in 2022.

We scrapped our landline just before the pandemic because the only people who ever seemed to phone us were Indian scammers. They were inviting us over for dinner, but impersonating every company you could think of: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel etc. I always hung up within seconds and never gave the slightest indication that I