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Good on your mom. I am always curious about these scam call centers. How do they staff up? Do they place an ad in the paper? Are the people who make these c
by beamatronic 10y ago
Good on your mom. I am always curious about these scam call centers. How do they staff up? Do they place an ad in the paper? Are the people who make these calls normal folks like you or I who wake up in the morning, commute to the office, sit in a cubicle and make these calls?
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoNormal folks wouldn't do jobs involving trickery.
- na85 10y ago"Normal" is culturally-defined.
- emp_zealoth 10y agoWait, what about fraudulent "financial advisors" that will happily trash you for some extra profit? Wells Fargo? Just the semi-recent stuff...
- jasonkostempski 10y agoUgh, what did Wells Fargo do?... Oh, fantastic, now I have to go see if I have any accounts I didn't open. I wonder if I'll ever see the day where I'm sold off to some random company and find out they're actually running an honest business with quality products.
- ktRolster 10y agoThe accounts were all closed within two weeks. That was enough to get employee bonuses though.
- icebraining 10y agoYou realize you're writing that in a forum where half the companies are financed by advertising...?
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoIs scamming advertising?
- Grishnakh 10y agoNo, you've got your Venn circles reversed. Advertising is a subset of scamming, not the other way around. There's plenty of scams that don't involve advertising; just look at Wells Fargo.
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoImagine their mindset. They may have the attitude that their work is fun.
- justinlardinois 10y agoDo they actually have call centers? I always assumed it was just one or two people trying to sound like they were in a call center.
- viraptor 10y agoI always imagined it's kind of a secret evil promotion. If someone is really pushy in their standard advertisement out-calls, someone else comes to them "psst, you wanna know where the real money is?..."
- skybrian 10y agoIt doesn't seem all that hard to imagine. I'd guess the people applying might not know at first that the call center job they're applying for will be for a scam, and then when they find out, they have to decide how badly they need a paycheck.
- veddox 10y agoI once read an article describing a full-blown callcenter for scam calls operating out of Brazil. I guess that with the right connections, it's not that hard to hire a couple of people willing and able to do that kind of thing.