Around 76 locations were raided in India as part of a crackdown on phony tech support scam calls
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Around 76 locations were raided in India as part of a crackdown on phony tech support scam calls
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Microsoft and Amazon are teaming up with law enforcement and India's Central Bureau of Investigation to combat tech support scam calls.

Around 76 locations were raided in India as part of a crackdown on phony tech support scam calls::Microsoft and Amazon are teaming up with law enforcement and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to combat tech support scam calls.

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17•1Y

A lot of the scammer call center calls were likely made on dumb landline phones, not smart phones.

I’m more surprised that they only grabbed 48 computers.

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Usually they use voip, spoofing an American phone number

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