Windows 10: Microsoft has become a scam

I have used Microsoft and windows since they first came into the computing scene and it seems that after Vista came and went bust, Microsoft decided that they had wasted enough money on developing new products and instead simply whittle away at its own usefulness and replace it with - apps. An app for this, an app for that; but nothing that actually works unless you pay for it. Used to be able to play solitaire just solitaire and now I have "solitaire with friends" or some pointless thing. Nearly everything on this computer I'm typing on right now, has to have a social influence or a soci

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Microsoft Technician Scams

Some related and official Microsoft articles:

• Protect yourself from tech support scams
  
• Tech support scams
  
• www.microsoft.com/reportascam
  

Other non-Microsoft, but very good articles worth reading:

• Tech support scams: help and resource page:
• Beware of Phony Tech Support Scams

 

Microsoft Technician Scams

Thank you very much, will pass on to my friend. Plus will file for my own future reference.

 

Scam or legit call?

That's a scam call....

Microsoft will never call you out of the blue.

Best to just hang up on those scammers.

Suggestion to read/watch:

• Beware of Phony Tech Support Scams
• New breakthroughs in combatting tech support scams - Microsoft On the Issues