Mac support phone call??

Has anyone received a phone call saying they are from Mac Support? I said I was not interested before they could finish their sales pitch, but I am curious as to how they would know if someone owned a Mac, or if it was just a random lucky call? Any security issues I should check into?
Thanks

It's a scam, hang up on them should they call back. Apple won't initiate contact with you via phone unless you've asked them to call for support.

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Hey wmhwilson,
first of all you are not addressing apple in these forums. We are all just users like you trying to help eachother out. I can almost guarantee they didn't pull the support for the card reader from ipad 3. As i have a nikon camera and d5000 and a card reader running on ipad 3 and i just did a import from the sd card after I read your comments. It could be a bug within your ipad. Try restarting the ipad, if you have everything back up to icloud do a full reset then restore from icloud.
Second, going off on a tangent about apple and their business practices, in support forums which are user based, really wont get you much help. We come here to help people like you and there are way to many folks who go out venting and we all heard it before and kinda getting bit tired off it.
Third, before doing proper diagnostics, rebooting, restoring ipad, using different SD card, try using usb connector directy to the camera, don't assume that apple pulled the plug on it. It could be a bug that slipped through testing however I highly doubt it since its working for me.
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