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Most of these phone scammers are in India, so two observations: they don't care about local laws, and they're far more likely to speak English than French or G
by mcpackieh 3y ago
Most of these phone scammers are in India, so two observations: they don't care about local laws, and they're far more likely to speak English than French or German. It makes sense for them to target a very large population of wealthy English speakers, e.g. Americans.
Yeah, they could call a German and try to scam them in English, but that's probably less likely to work than scamming somebody in their native language.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoThe systems that let them spoof numbers appears to be uniquely American.
- jeeeb 3y agoI’m in Australia and get calls and messages from spoofed numbers all the time. The Wikipedia page on Caller ID spoofing is quite informative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing I think it’s much more common in English speaking countries because collectively they’re the most attractive target with 450m+ wealthy consumers.
- floomk 3y agoNo one would answer calls from an Indian phone number and it would be incredibly expensive. This is relevant because number spoofing is blocked by the telcos in the EU.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoWhat's funny is that Americans can very quickly distinguish an Indian accent. So any time I answer the phone and hear an unexpected caller with an unknown voice and an Indian accent calling himself "Kevin" I know it's a scammer immediately and I hang up.
- johnea 3y agoYou must not be applying for tech jobs....