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The defendants allegedly pulled in over $1.3 million over the course of about six years for unnecessary and undelivered tech support.
You're free to bash the Bishap A man has pleaded guilty in America to a single felony count for his role in a $3m tech support scam operation.…
Police raided 16 Indian call centers last week - a second big raid sparked by Microsoft filing complaints about tech support scammers.
I understand his frustration, but this is extreme: When police asked Cryptopay what could have motivated Salonen to send the company a pipe bomb or, rather, two pipe bombs, which is what...
Tech scammers are constantly coming up with new techniques to make users panic and seek their bogus services. The latest one, documented by Malwarebytes researchers, has been dubbed “evil cursor”....
Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that infested the company’s TechNet support domain.
But Tech-Support Fraud is Surging, via Cold Calls, Phishing and More, FBI WarnsWhile tech-support scams have proliferated for years, the FBI says losses tied to such fraud are now higher than...
The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.
Google announced late last week that it’s preparing a new verification program designed to keep tech support scams off its advertising platform. read more
Verification programme aims to weed out the miscreants Google has placed restrictions on tech support ads after admitting it's increasingly hard to tell promos for legit services from deceptions.…