Microsoft's advice: Hang up on tech support scammers

Microsoft's best advice to combat tech support scams? Hang up the phone.
"You get a call from someone that's unsolicited, talking about technical support, hang up," said David Finn, the executive director of Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit, during a hearing held by the U.S. Senate last week. "That's the first thing. That is not a legitimate effort to sell something to you."
Finn was one of several people who testified last Wednesday before the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, which held a he