Silicon Republic posted a story that the Data Protection Commissioner and Microsoft Ireland are warning the public to be wary of a cold-calling scam from people claiming to be representing Microsoft.

The commissioner has found that the scammers phoned people claiming they worked at Microsoft. They told individuals there was a problem with their computer and offered to help fix this.

They then asked the individuals to log onto a website to download a file which would solve the supposed problem and asked for their credit card details to pay for this.

  Data Commissioner warns of fake Microsoft cold-calling scam