March 04, 2020

Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante

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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September 23, 2019

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.

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August 20, 2019

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.

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August 06, 2019

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.

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December 03, 2018

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.

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September 12, 2018

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.

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September 04, 2018

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.

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July 04, 2018

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.

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June 21, 2018

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.

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