24 arrested at fake Microsoft call centre
by Surur
4 years
A Microsoft complaint has resulted in the arrest of 24 people being accused of running 10 fake Microsoft call centres dedicated to scamming US PC users out of hundreds of dollars for unnecessary support services. The complaint was...
Microsoft says 1 in 10 Brits fall for tech support scams
by Surur
6 years
Microsoft says a massive 69% of UK PC users have been at the receiving end of tech support scams, either via unsolicited phone calls, emails, pop-ups or redirects, and 1 in 10 have been fooled into continuing with the interactions...
Fake Google apps flood the Windows Phone Store
by Surur
8 years
Microsoft recently expedited the app review process, meaning apps can go from submission to publication in minutes. This suggests the process has become pretty much automated, which it appears one scammer took good advantage off. ...
Fake Chrome browser scamming users in Marketplace
by Surur
10 years
While the Marketplace certifiers may be good at keeping out malware (and we don’t really know this for sure either) they are certainly not good at keeping out crapware. The latest is a fake Google Chrome browser, which the d...
Fake Spotify App Pulled From Marketplace
by Liwen Guo
10 years
Microsoft has apparently pulled the fake Spotify app that landed in the Marketplace in late December, somehow slipping through the certification process. The ‘spotify’ app, with a lower-case ‘s’ in order to...