Microsoft, Amazon, and India join forces to take down tech support scammers

If you own a cell phone, you know the pain and fury of a 9 a.m. call from “Microsoft Windows support.” These and similar scams send out literally billions of robo-calls every year, plus various web-based scams, trying to hook the unwary for services they don’t need. With India being a hotbed of phony call centers, the country’s investigators are finally cracking down on them with the joint help of Microsoft and Amazon. According to a press release from India’s Central Bureau of Investi...