Latest hack in Singapore: phone scammers posing as Microsoft

Scammers in Singapore have taken to an old medium – phone calls – to hack into users’ computers and swindle them of hundreds of dollars, in the latest con job revealed by the authorities today.

These scammers would call up victims here, pretending to be from brands like Microsoft, and trick them into giving access to their computers or even transferring money over in the hope of fixing problems on their PCs. …