The tech giant has been a mainstay in the industry for decades and as scammers continue to find new ways to wreak havoc on systems, they have installed new features to stop them.

In a blog post, Microsoft said: "Microsoft maintains a continuous effort to protect its platforms and customers from fraud and abuse. From blocking imposters on Microsoft Azure and adding anti-scam features to Microsoft Edge, to fighting tech support fraud with new features in Windows Quick Assist, this edition of Cyber Signals takes you inside the work underway and important milestones achieved that protect customers."

In the post, Microsoft noted that they had "hwarted $4 billion in fraud attempts, "rejected 49,000 fraudulent partnership enrollments" and "blocked about 1.6 million bot signup attempts per hour".

Explaining how AI is being used to combat scamming, the post added: "AI has started to lower the technical bar for fraud and cybercrime actors looking for their own productivity tools, making it easier and cheaper to generate believable content for cyberattacks at an increasingly rapid rate. AI software used in fraud attempts runs the gamut, from legitimate apps misused for malicious purposes to more fraud-oriented tools used by bad actors in the cybercrime underground."