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Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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Lets see if they actually charge them
They'll just move house again. India has done absolutely nothing to address this which is disgusting.
Yeah, it's weird though why specifically in India these call centres pop up and not anywhere else?
Can't it have anything to do with Western companies outsourcing there en masse to fuck over Western workers, thus making it plausible that someone with a thick Indian accent is calling you on behalf of them?
Or the fact that Indian wages are kept artificially low, with abysmal workers rights, as is common with the countries doing the lion's share of the world's manufacturing, so it makes sense for people to live off of the literal scraps of Westerners?
I think the real disgusting thing is that the relatively small amounts of money that you can scam out of westerners is able to sustain a whole industry in India. If these guys got proper jobs with proper pay, they wouldn't need to do this to get ahead.
One thing is that the scam call centers usually pay very well there. From what I've heard, even teens can get in on it, and they can make as much as someone with a full college degree just working for a scam company. The owners are making six figure sums each year.
And the amounts aren't always small. Sometimes they'll find a particularly vulnerable elderly person and net thousands, or even tens of thousands.