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The Belgian police warns internet users for scammers that try to trick users into paying for a free upgrade to Windows 10. According to the Federal Police the scammers are active since several days. They mail users with a reminder to pay for their upgrade to Windows 10. Payments have to be made with the prepaid creditcard from Paysafe.
We advise anyone not to be tricked and not to pay. It’s possible the scammers will insist several times to pay. You can safely ignore this.”
Those who have already made a payment should inform the police and call the Paysafe hotline. If the balance of the card has not been used by the scammers it might be possible to block the payment. In the emails the scammers don’t specifically mention Windows 10. It only states that the recipient of the mail has outstanding debt for the upgrade of Windows.
My take
As opposed to Microsoft that's tricking (and bullying, and nagging, and bribing, and forcing) users to upgrade for free.
Microsoft's crowing of "200 million devices installed" may sound impressive to the unthinking, but in reality Windows 10 is a failure because if you look deeper, you'll discover that there are ~1,029 million W7 and W8.1 users who have resisted every aggressive trick Microsoft has thrown at them and said NO.
We advise anyone not to be tricked and not to pay. It’s possible the scammers will insist several times to pay. You can safely ignore this.”
Those who have already made a payment should inform the police and call the Paysafe hotline. If the balance of the card has not been used by the scammers it might be possible to block the payment. In the emails the scammers don’t specifically mention Windows 10. It only states that the recipient of the mail has outstanding debt for the upgrade of Windows.
My take
As opposed to Microsoft that's tricking (and bullying, and nagging, and bribing, and forcing) users to upgrade for free.
Microsoft's crowing of "200 million devices installed" may sound impressive to the unthinking, but in reality Windows 10 is a failure because if you look deeper, you'll discover that there are ~1,029 million W7 and W8.1 users who have resisted every aggressive trick Microsoft has thrown at them and said NO.