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24 Microsoft tech support scammers arrested from fake call centers in India


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Tech support scams are becoming increasingly common nowadays, in which people pose as official representatives from a company and in the process of apparently "fixing" an issue in your device or software, harm it. Just last month, over 3,000 tech support scams were spotted on Microsoft's TechNet websites.

 

According to a new report, 24 people have been arrested in India for impersonating Microsoft support officials in fake call centers.

 

NDTV reports that a complaint against these dubious call centers in the Cyber Crime Cell was filed by Microsoft India representative Nripendra Kashyap. The executive claimed that multiple Delhi-based companies were falsely claiming to be Microsoft support branches, and were promoting false security issues, offering to "fix" them for any sum between $100 and $500.

 

According to the report, these call centers were still actively operating when the raid took place, and material seized included tech support training documents, fake checks in the name of Microsoft Tech support, call recordings and their transcripts, among other things.

 

Microsoft India claims that their customers, who called these call centers under the impression that they were contacting Microsoft, were directed to webpages where they would be bombarded by pop-up warnings that their computer was under threat from a virus. The tech support scammer would then request remote access to the machine to "fix" the problem, and would then enroll them in a costly subscription program so that this alleged virus wouldn't bother them again.

 

The police further states that sometimes these scammers accessed the caller's identity and financial information, and in extreme cases, also install malware on the computers that were remotely using. An active investigation is underway against these tech support scammers, with the 24 people still under arrest.

 

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Good, make an example and hopefully this crap would stop.

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With H-1B visas they could steal with impunity.

 

Verizon’s Board Members Push Armies of H-1B Outsourcing Workers into Many U.S. Companies

 

Educated, qualified American-born citizens are forced to dig their own graves training these mongrels, who then "chain migrate" to receive welfare and Social Security. Worse, they're hired preferentially over Americans for State and Federal gov't jobs to "fill quotas" for the "Diversity Delusion" they live in fear of. 

  Our nation is in a death-spiral.

  They resent us, in our own country. And resist assimilation into our culture. Everyone cowers in fear of someone yelling "DISCRIMINATION!" so they cow-tow to anyone not born here.

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y locked them up when u can have smart people do little trick to them so they stop

is not to make fun of people but it show is more then one way to stop the scammer  and not just from india

 

plus it will be good if microsoft blocked things like codes like this ?

Spoiler

if copy this code its just like how the scammer use  but its a .bat  and i have seen better and more

this code or .bat  u can kill with taskmanager and is safe and fake

@echo off

echo ^<html^>^<head^>^<title^>BSOD^

</title^> > bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<hta:application id="oBVC" >> bsod.hta

echo applicationname="BSOD" >> bsod.hta

echo version="1.0" >> bsod.hta

echo maximizebutton="no" >> bsod.hta

echo minimizebutton="no" >> bsod.hta

echo sysmenu="no" >> bsod.hta

echo Caption="no" >> bsod.hta

echo windowstate="maximize"/^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^</head^>^<body bgcolor="#000088" scroll="no"^> >> bsod.hta

echo ^<font face="Lucida Console" size="4" color="#FFFFFF"^> >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>A problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LES_OR_EQ

UAL^</p^> >> bsod.htaecho. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer, If this screen appears again, follow these steps:^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need.^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>Technical information:^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x0000000C,0x00000002,0x00000

000,0xF86B5A89)^</p^> >> bsod.htaecho. >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>*** gv3.sys - Address F86B5A89 base at F86B5000, DateStamp 3dd9919eb^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>Beginning dump of physical memory^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>Physical memory dump complete.^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo ^<p^>Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance.^</p^> >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo. >> bsod.hta

echo ^</font^> >> bsod.hta

echo ^</body^>^</html^> >> bsod.hta

start "" /wait "bsod.hta"

del /s /f /q "bsod.hta" > nul

 

 

its a fake code just like u all have seen befor on much videos like that  i am sure

but it can trick users if they not have much info about pc things

 

 

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