Phone scam doing the rounds

Geraldine Leighton sent in the account of her recent experience:

"We had a phone call recently and, a woman with an American accent explained that our internet connection would be closed sometime in the next 24 hours as it had been compromised by several countries. I can't remember the exact words she used but they implied that it was at risk and we would need to get new connection details.

We put the phone down."

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