Criminals Call on New Crop of Phone Scams | Identity Theft | Smartphones & Mobile Devices | LiveScience

VoIP scams can reach landlines and mobile phone lines. CREDIT: Dreamstime

Criminals are putting a new voice to the traditionally anonymous world of online crime.

Scammers have taken to making calls via Skype — the popular Voice over IP (VoIP) calling software — and attempting to scare victims into downloading and installing rogue antivirus software, Brian Krebs wrote this week on his Krebs on Security blog.

Skype has more than 600 million users and, like other VoIP services, is very inexpensive, giving criminals an enticing new pool from which to draw. [...]

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