Microsoft has finally had enough of the Windows scammers. Apparently it generates about 1.5 billion dollars a year.
Microsoft has a special digital crimes unit and they have received over 11,000 calls a month about fake security issues and many Windows users have lost quite large sums of money.
So Delhi police raided various call centres that have been linked to these scams. 16 were carried out this week and earlier this month, another 10 locations were raided.
The raids were due to Microsoft filing complaints with police in New Delhi about these so called Windows Call Centres.
Its nice to know that Microsoft actually does do something about it. And this should encourage more people to report these scams.
According to the New York Times some people caught out by these scams ended up paying $1000 for the fake support.
Mind you according to the BBC, last year one person in the UK lost £1200 pounds to these con-artists.
Well hopefully we will get less of these nuisance calls.
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