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First, they're often offshore already, and second, they often use spoofed caller id's. The upshot is they might not even need to hide.
by imglorp 7y ago
First, they're often offshore already, and second, they often use spoofed caller id's. The upshot is they might not even need to hide.
- btilly 7y agoThe scammers are. The companies being targeted are onshore. Which is why the USA can get to them. My point is that the people in charge have every reason to believe that the government will crack down on them, and have had all the time that they need to try to hide the money. By the time the courts are done, there will be no money to find. But perhaps some more property in London will be secretly owned: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/17/100-billion-of-uk-propert-secretly-owned-anonymous-firms-tax-havens https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/17/100-billion-...
- fortran77 7y agoThe spoofed caller ID thing really needs to be fixed. Our office number ends in a nice round number XXX-XXX-8000 and several times a day we get calls back saying "WHY DID YOU JUST CALL ME" and they don't believe me when I tell them we didn't and somebody's spoofing caller id. Spoofing Caller ID to someone else's number shouldn't be possible. (But it's very easy. I can enter any phone number I want in our phone system here!)
- magicalhippo 7y ago> Spoofing Caller ID to someone else's number shouldn't be possible. Right, this is why we have certificates for websites. I want to know it's my bank I'm logging in to. I'd also like to know it really is my bank that's calling...