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A new bedrägerivåg now sweeping over Sweden. Many have already been cheated of thousands of dollars.
The scam that English speaking people with Indian sounding dialects are calling consumers and claiming to represent Microsoft has been in a few years. But now, the league has upped the tempo.
– In recent days there have been many notifications. Only in the Stockholm area, these are about 30-35 entries, said Jan Olsson, investigators at the police national fraud center.
The caller tells the called party’s computer is infected and offer a small sum to clear it.
In conjunction with the smaller sum to be paid is the called left out the card number and security code and then got rid of the money.
– In some cases it has involved up to 35 000 crowns, says Lars Andersson, team-leader at fraud center at Västernorrland Police.
Police counsels all who are called that way to just hang up the phone.
Microsoft emphasizes that the company will not call customers in this way.
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