An Ontario resident has been scammed out of $35,000 worth of Bitcoin by scammers posing as working for Silicon Valley giant Microsoft to sell them fake firewall software.
The scam started with pop-ups on the computers of unnamed victims telling them to call the number shown to update their virus protection.
They followed the instructions and connected with a scammer who claimed to work for the software company and subsequently convinced them to install what they believed to be a new firewall.