In the first 6 months of this year, more than 3 million people have been affected by phone scammers who impersonate themselves as employees from large tech companies, according to Microsoft. Often the scammers pose as Microsoft employee. They call consumers at home and claim their computer has issues.
In order to solve these issues, users have to provide the scammers access to their computer and make a payment. There are also variants in which popups and advertisements are used that warn for computer issues or that try to convince users to call the 'helpdesk' of a tech company to trick them into calling the scammers themselves.
According to Microsoft are people behind the scams often American companies that use foreign call centers to trick internet users.
