Link in the article comments to http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/21/microsoft-dumps-partner-telephone-support-scam/ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/

Link in the article comments to http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/21/microsoft-dumps-partner-telephone-support-scam/ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/21/microsoft-dumps-p... is worth reading. Amazing that someone would have the balls to try this, but I suppose there are no penalties for what amounts to abuse of privileges. I know MS tightened up on some aspects of the partner scheme (presumably to stop everyone and his dog using it as a way to get free copies of Windows). So, who owns Comantra? There needs to be an international register of people unfit to own companies, or whose companies one shouldn't do business with. In the UK, Companies House records the really bad guys who've managed to get struck off as directors, but this kind of scam needs to get you on a little list too.