Not technically breaking any laws but clearly scammy. Something to watch out for.
Overseas scammers are cold calling trying to offer paid technical support for “infected computers“. Australians are being swindled out of hundreds of dollars by dodgy call centres pretending to be affiliated with Microsoft, who cold call victims and scare them into believing their computer is infected with a virus. Microsoft Australia says the scammers, who typically operate out of India, are sophisticated enough to avoid blatantly breaking the l … Read More
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