If you have a landline phone fitted at your home, then you will surely be accustomed to unwanted calls – calls from salespersons of energy supplies or asking your opinion about the voting system – interrupting while you are busy with household chores, taking care of the baby or working on project due next day in the office. There is one particular unwanted call, making rounds in the country, which is not only interrupting your work, but also charging you with fake claim – Microsoft Windows Support Call.
“I am calling from Microsoft”
These are scam calls claiming to be from Microsoft Windows support – “I'm calling from Microsoft. We've had a report from your Internet service provider of serious virus problems from your computer.” Kaspersky Lab security researcher, David Jacoby received the scam call and decided to play along to find out facts that can help users to detect and avoid Microsoft Windows support call scams.
