Phone Scam offering ‘IT Support’

We’ve recently had a number of customers contacting us about a serious ‘Phone Scam’ that they have fallen victim to. From the reports we’ve received, the bogus caller (apparently sounding of Asian ethnicity) will say they represent ‘Microsoft’ or a ‘PC Repair’ company and that their internal security systems have alerted them to the fact that the customer’s computer is “at risk”, “infected”, “has no security software” or some other random scare-tactic claim. The Scammer will then offer to install a piece...