Tech Support

Cyber Crime

Nov 30, 2018

Indian police & Microsoft busts tech support scam centers

You may have watched YouTube videos about tech support scam tricking unsuspecting users into believing that their devices have been compromised with some nasty malware and the only way to get rid of it is to pay the technician for their “services” over the phone or Skype call. This type of tech support scam has […]

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How To

Oct 21, 2018

Identifying And Avoiding Tech Support Scams

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), it received nearly 11,000 tech support related complaints in the year 2017. Tech support scams have been around for a long time, and they can lead to massive losses on the part of the victim. The threat of these scams have increased massively, with Microsoft seeing 24% […]

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