A cybercrime vigilante was so incensed by tech support scammers, he reverse-hacked the Indian call centre to spy on his would-be attackers.
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Two charged with tech-support scamming the elderly for $10m
The tech-support scammers were allegedly part of a network of crooks in the US and India who conned about 7,500 victims.
Scammers use bogus search results to fool voice assistants
The Better Business Bureau reports that scammers have worked out how to game search results for company customer support telephone numbers.
Fake Dell support rep admits to talking US colleges out of $874,000
His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya for nearly 8 months before being nabbed.
Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided
Police raided 16 Indian call centers last week – a second big raid sparked by Microsoft filing complaints about tech support scammers.
Microsoft purges 3,000 tech support scams hiding on TechNet
Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that infested the company’s TechNet support domain.
Google Ads cracks down on tech support scammers
The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.
Elderly scam victims are too embarrassed to speak up
Financial talk itself is taboo. Admitting to getting fleeced and losing all your savings? That qualifies as super taboo, a new report says.
Elderly victims conned out of millions by tech support scammer
The FTC has been battling tech support scams for years, especially ones targeting older citizens who are seen by fraudsters everywhere as susceptible to these cons.