Tech support scammer threatened to kill man when scam call backfired

Tech support scammers should probably just hang up the phone when a scam call goes wrong.
 
But one scammer took things to a new level by threatening to kill a man who pointed out that the scammer was trying to steal money.
 
As we've reported numerous times, scammers pretending to work for Microsoft tech support call potential victims, tell them their computers are infected, convince them to provide remote access, and then charge them hundreds of dollars to fix imaginary problems.
 
Jakob Dulisse of British Columbia was wise to the ruse and recorded such a call two weeks ago, CBC News reported today. After Dulisse accused the scammer of trying to install malware on his computer that would steal banking information, passwords, and PayPal credentials, things went very wrong.
 
"You do understand we have each and every information, your address, your phone number," the scammer said in the recorded call. (You can listen to excerpts at the CBC link.) "We have our group in Canada. I will call them, I will provide your information to them, they will come to you, they will kill you."
 
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