Microsoft has developed as a result of an individual research project and a warning issued for criminals who have computer owners telephone access. Through social engineering, would the scammers do, on average, hundreds of dollars of loot.
From the Microsoft research, conducted among seven thousand computer users in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland and Canada, it would appear that 3 per cent of them are the instructions following of people who mostly existed as well as worked with well known software and security companies. On average, had 16 percent of the respondents were suspicious of phone calls, while this percentage in Ireland even 26 percent would amount to. Of those who such a phone call is received, caught on 22%.
The crooks were among other things for each other that some of the victims gave access to their systems. Also taught the users passwords or credit card information, or been to a website lured malware contained, according to Microsoft. Further tried the criminals to get computer users to purchase. According to the survey results, the average loot 875 dollar amounts, while the costs to affected systems again to clean around 1730 dollars would amount to.
Microsoft claims that the security software is ‘continuously improving’ and that the current phone scams, particularly the increase in English-speaking countries. It is according to the software giant, however, a matter of time before the scammers on a large scale begin to operate in countries where other languages are spoken.