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.