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A lot of these operations have a full fledged office and everything. Unsure whether it's corruption or incompetence or both that prevents them from shutting the
by fareesh 3y ago
A lot of these operations have a full fledged office and everything. Unsure whether it's corruption or incompetence or both that prevents them from shutting them down and arresting everyone involved.
- waihtis 3y agono mention of revenue generated by this activity, but it's not far-fetched to suggest it's a significant source of income for locals and thus a blind eye is turned to it, willfully or via bribery
- fareesh 3y agoThe scams target locals too, it isn't limited to international victims only
- shmde 3y agoCops are paid a share most probably for them to continue scamming.
- rightbyte 3y agoThe scam centres probably don't market them self as scam centres if the authorities ask. To prove that they are scamming people is probably quite hard.
- reisse 3y agoThe problem is, these call centers are more outsiders problem than Indian problem. Indian authorities have zero interest in shutting them down. Call centers are not scamming Indians, there are no complaints from local people to police, and probably police gets their share too.
- slowmotiony 3y agoThere's the reputation loss in the eyes of the international community, shouldn't the authorities have some interest in not letting India be perceived as a country that allows theft and organized crime?
- user_7832 3y agoI doubt the Indian Govt doesn’t care about this. But it’s likely that the overworked policeman would rather solve an extra murder case than go after a scam office. Iirc there have been arrests made in the past by the Kolkata police, but it’s probably a whack-a-mole x inadequate resource problem.
- reisse 3y agoHave you seen politicians accusing Indian government in allowing theft and organised crime? Because if not, there is no reputation loss. And I think politicians can close their eyes on the few scammers here and there for the access to Indian markets. Besides, there is an angle of view "rich westerners extortioned our country for centuries, and now are accusing us with the same because of few scammers we're certainly honestly (not) trying to catch" which will be very popular in a certain parts of the world.
- llm_nerd 3y ago"Because if not, there is no reputation loss." Much of the world views India as a corrupt, low-trust society, and it is things like scam centres operating as full blown, in the open operations that built and maintains this reputation. And of course there are costs. China has shot miles ahead of India. Despite all of the advantages India enjoyed it has a GDP per capita below Congo. An economy with a strong scam and corruption basis will always falter. Even if you think this is some sort of poetic justice tax[1] on ugly Westerners, this sort of criminality always goes hand in hand with corruption at all levels of government, in policing, and so on. Always. [1] quoting from the Narcissist's prayer: "And if I did, you deserved it.". Criminals through history have justified their actions by claiming that it is merely righting some historic wrong.
- reisse 3y ago> Much of the world views India as a corrupt, low-trust society Not really sure if much of the world shares your opinion. > Despite all of the advantages India enjoyed it has a GDP per capita below Congo. Congo-Brazzavile, which has GDP per capita slightly above India, is a petrocracy with only a 5 million people. DR Congo, which may be comparable, has GDP per capita four times lower than in India. Applying the same logic, I can say that US is more corrupt and low-trust because Qatar has higher GDP per capita. > An economy with a strong scam and corruption basis will always falter. If 7% average annual GDP growth for the last twenty years is now considered "faltering", I don't know what to say. > Even if you think this is some sort of poetic justice tax[1] on ugly Westerners I haven't stated that it is my opinion.
- navigate8310 3y agoTheir disinterest arises from politicians and local police also benefiting from these scammers' earnings.
- slashtab 3y ago>Outsiders Problem Not so much, these scammers looks for easy targets which both gullible old foreigners and Indians. The latest scam is Sextortion and Job promises, because there has been a lot of push to educate people to not share OTP, so these scammers keep looking new way to extort money. https://www.statista.com/statistics/309435/india-cyber-crime-it-act/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/309435/india-cyber-crime...
- niel1 3y agoCould you please share any sources or references that support your argument that Indians are not scammed?
- __rito__ 3y agoNO. Indians are victims of call center scams, too. Maybe not equal in monetary terms, but definitely equivalent or more in terms of frequency. Call centers are scamming Indians big time. Source: I am an Indian, and received ~20 scam calls in my life. I know at least half a dozen victims. My dad was a public sector bank admin whose responsibility, among many other things was addressing complaints after such crimes had taken place.
- jowea 3y agoThe report this article is based on says about half of cybercrime is UPI fraud, so internal to India.
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoSee also: ransomware and the Russians.
- fareesh 3y agoNot true - there are local scams as well
- assholeconny 3y ago[dead]
- oblio 3y agoWhy would they be shut down? They're probably registered as call centers and at least some of their income is declared, thus legal. Especially if they don't target anyone local, who's going to notice, who's going to tell and lose their job or burn bridges?
- fareesh 3y agoThere are plenty of scams targeting locals too though