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The article confounds cybercrime and the IT industry. People working out of offices in Indian cities are not criminals since they work for legitimate businesse
by supriyo-biswas 3y ago
The article confounds cybercrime and the IT industry.
People working out of offices in Indian cities are not criminals since they work for legitimate businesses; the concentration of scam operations in said cities is not related to the presence of the IT industry, nor would scammers allocate resources inefficiently by buying office space, which isn’t required to run a criminal enterprise and may be detrimental by way of drawing attention and scrutiny which would have been avoided otherwise.
(Downvoters may want to address the problems with my comment; although I feel this is an issue which people feel strongly about, so a rational analysis is often foregone in the pursuit of vindication.)
- mattw2121 3y agoMy understanding of scammers in India has been formed by Youtube videos, where the host "scams the scammer", and from the Reply All podcast (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk). Saying that scammers do not buy office space doesn't seem correct. Are you saying they wouldn't buy (or lease/rent) office space? If so, the Youtube videos and Reply All directly contradict that.
- spacecadet 3y agoEven "mobs" operated as legit businesses. Agreed, to suggest some of the criminals would not attempt the same ruse is nieve.
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoSome rich businessmen in India are implicated in these scams as well. That is, they operate legit businesses on the whole, but, say, have a floor in a high rise of theirs that’s a scammer call center.
- Hikikomori 3y agoFrom what I've seen of every phone scammer case they're in an office and look like a normal call centre.