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If you were setting up a little scam operation.. who would you target? Would you decide to set it up to call over 40 different countries in europe? Each with t
by mrlala 7y ago
If you were setting up a little scam operation.. who would you target?
Would you decide to set it up to call over 40 different countries in europe? Each with their own way to show phone numbers.. each carrier attempting to block spam calls in different ways.. each country virtually speaking a different language.. most countries having some different banking/credit card systems..
Or would you target the united states which everyone in the country has the same phone prefix, pretty much all speak one language, banking/credit card system is the same, etc.
It just makes sense for scammers to target the US. You can target hundreds of millions of people the exact same way.
- bdamm 7y agoAs a bonus, the country has a high ratio of people desperate for services who also have enough money to successfully swindle. Many elderly Americans really believe that a stranger on the phone might be their ticket to improved conditions.
- morei 7y agoThat argument just suggests that the US has more scam operations, not that it has all of them. Crowding out is still an effect, so scam operations are incentivized to target other countries as the US becomes fully 'supplied' with scammers.