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Tech support scammer threatened to kill man when scam call backfired

Scammer threatens to kill a man who says he has information on his computer. The scammer also threatens to throw the victim’s bank account into the river. “He was still trying to get me to do what he was trying to do,” the man says. The call is the latest in a series of attempts to get people to pay for a scam to fix their computers and get their bank accounts. The Canadian national news network says the scammer is “chilling” and “hard to take seriously””]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/tech-support-scammer-threatened-to-kill-man-when-scam-call-backfired/

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