MICROSOFT IS TAKING ON some tech support scammers in what looks like a big case in California.
The firm is as sick as good people are about the plague of fake support companies and their phone calls.
Pretending to offer something that someone actually wants, they actually try to take money and stink up a home computer. They are as welcome in your life as china-hating bulls in a china shop.
Microsoft isn't going to stand by and watch as scammers strip the world's grandmothers of their children's inheritance, and is taking this fight to the federal court in the central district of California and a civil lawsuit against Omnitech Support and related entities.
Microsoft said in a blog post that it will tackle the scammers using trademark infringement and unfair business practice arguments.
From the sounds of it, the Redmond company gets about as many calls from its customers as its customers must feel like they get from scammers.
"Tech support scams are not a new phenomenon. Scammers have been peddling useless security software for years, tricking people into spending millions of dollars on non-existent computer problems," the firm said.
"However, today's scam artists have added a new twist - using a so-called 'technician' to gain access to a person's computer.
"These scammers claim to find non-existent computer viruses and infections then con people out of their hard-earned money for bogus tech support, in addition to stealing personal and financial information or even installing new malicious software.
"Since May 2014, Microsoft has received over 65,000 customer complaints regarding fraudulent tech support scams."
Omnitech is accused of claiming to be certified by Microsoft, and of actually infecting some computers with a virus that required cleaning up. ยต
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