British hacker reveals Microsoft's fake call center in India, CCTV exploits

scammer cctv - PHOTO : bbc

British hacker reveals Microsoft's fake call center in India, CCTV exploits

Jim Browning studied for a full three months by hacking the CCTV camera of a fake call center running in Microsoft's name in Gurugram and then handing the footage to the BBC. A BBC report reported that a thug at the call center in Gurugram, adjacent to Delhi, spoke to people by the name of Chris Lawson and told that he was speaking from San Jose, California.







According to the CCTV footage obtained by the BBC, the scammer of the Grugram is talking to a UK man by the name of Chris Lawson. In the meantime, the scammer asks the UK man (victim) to recover his computer for £ 1,295, or about Rs 1,21,250. The victim tells the scammer that he is in depression and may have a heart attack. After this the scammer says why are you crying, you are a good man.


Hacker says he wanted to show the world how scammers defraud people. The hacker has claimed that these scammers were working as Microsoft's technical support staff while sitting in an office in Grurugram. They used to send fake pop-up messages on the users' system as a warning.


The BBC report states that scammers pay lime to the UK of around Rs 21 million, or Rs 1,53,85,96,500, every month. Scammers pretend to be from banks, computer companies, retailers, and even the government.