Victim accounts on scamalert.sg shared similar experiences Yesterday (2 Feb), the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) alerted the public about scammers targeting Microsoft Windows users on its Facebook page. This scam is also dubbed the “Microsoft Internet Phone Scam”. Included in the post was a link to scamalert.sg, a website that allows victims of scams to post their stories so others will not be tricked as well. Multiple stories of the same incident on the website must have been the tip-off to the NCPC. We picked up some of the points they have in common: 1. There were many different callers, but they all had Indian accents The caller may be male or female. They also used different names, including Shanti and Ronny. Source Source Source 2. The calls came from a variety of numbers Accounts on scamalert.sg reported a wide variety of country codes from Bermuda, UK and North America. Source Source Source 3. The caller claimed to be personnel from “Windows” — which is not actually a company The scammers told the victims that they were calling from the “Windows” base in Dallas, Texas. Windows is a graphical operating system developed and marketed by the company Microsoft. Also, […]
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