Amazon Helps Take Down Fake Call Centers in India
Amazon teamed up with Microsoft to thwart scammers in India posing as employees of their respective firms, the most recent example of Amazon’s more aggressive actions against fraudsters in recent years. Amazon issued a press release on Thursday announcing that together with Microsoft and the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI), which is the federal enforcement agency in India, it had taken action against perpetrators of “technology support fraud.” “On Thursday, October 19, CBI announced it conducted multiple criminal raids in various…