The current phone scam employs similar tricks to that of a fake antivirus software scam, also known as scareware, circulating the Internet. Microsoft said that the live phone version of the scam ...

When searching for telephone support, ads with numbers of fake supporters pop up. The websites are even hosted by Microsoft. The virus analysts at Malwarebytes explain the current scam in a blog post.

We get all sorts of emails daily – some of them could even be Support mail claiming to be sent from reputed organizations like Microsoft. On almost all occasions these emails turn out to be nothing ...