Indian consumers turn smarter at avoiding tech support scams: Survey

Overall, the survey showed that the numbers seemed to be lower in India this year, compared with 2016

Indian consumers have become smarter at avoiding technology support scams, with a survey revealing that just 68 per cent of them were affected by these frauds this year, compared with 80 per cent in 2016.
 

Heightened skepticism and distrust about potential scams contributed to these better outcomes, according to the 'tech support scam survey 2018' released Monday by Microsoft's digital crimes unit.
 

Millennials and males had the highest exposure to tech support scams, the web-based survey, which is an update to the version released in 2016, said.
 

"They were more likely to lose money, engaged in riskier online behaviour such