UK court shuts down two companies that outsourced work to India, here’s why

Two information technology companies which outsourced work to India have been wound up by a UK court for generating unsolicited pop-ups that misled people into thinking there was a fault with their computer.

Msinfosys Support Ltd and MS Global Support Ltd were wound up in the “public interest” by the High Court in England back in March and the Official Receiver was appointed liquidator of the companies, the UK’s Insolvency Service said on Monday.

The court was told that the two companies generated unsolicited pop-up error messages and when people phoned-up to check what was wrong, some were led to believe there was a fault with their computers.