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By SecureWorld News Team
Fri | Oct 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM PDT

Turns out Millennials aren't such digital gurus after all.

The Register Explains:

Millennials are more likely to fall for tech support scams than baby boomers, Microsoft says.

The findings are revealed in a recent Microsoft study that saw it poll peeps in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and nine other countries. Redmond's not revealed the number of respondents.

Tech support scams take on various flavours but often begin with fake blue screen of death advertisement pages warning of malware infections.

Those who click through or call the advertised phone numbers are often asked for remote access to their machines by operators pretending to come from tech and security companies.

Scammers often run benign commands within command prompts and claim the resulting information is evidence of malware infection which can be resolved by purchasing fake security software. That software is often malware and the "fix"actually connects a user to a botnet.

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