Court sentences 'Microsoft PC' scam boss

British trading standards staff have won a landmark case after successfully prosecuting the man behind a Microsoft computer scam which tricks customers into paying for free anti-virus software.

Court sentences 'Microsoft PC' scam boss

British trading standards staff have won a landmark case after successfully prosecuting the man behind a Microsoft computer scam which tricks customers into paying for free anti-virus software.

Crooks based at Indian call centres duped people into allowing them access to their home computers, when they would then remove programmes to protect them from attack, leaving the PCs in a worse state than before.

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