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What? That's a ridiculous, patronizing, borderline racist comment. Most of the scammers in the video had thick accents, but if from that you conclude that scam
by lbrito 3y ago
What? That's a ridiculous, patronizing, borderline racist comment.
Most of the scammers in the video had thick accents, but if from that you conclude that scammers in general are "non western", that's at best a dumb conclusion, at worst a racist one. I don't know details of Kitboga's scammers' demographics, but there is no logical reason to assume the proportion of scammers in the West is any different than in other places of the world.
This is really the kind of absurdly tone deaf, entitled comment that turns me off the most in HN - West uber alles.
- spacechild1 3y ago> but there is no logical reason to assume the proportion of scammers in the West is any different than in other places of the world. Most tech support spam calls come from India. That's just a fact. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/tech-support-scam-baiters-india-call-centre-big-money-2876366 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/tech-support-sca... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-centers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-center...
- lbrito 3y agoPlease look up the population of India, then re-read my comment, paying attention to one word in particular: proportion.
- spacechild1 3y agoEven when taking population size into account, India is still vastly overrepresented compared to other countries. Of course, tech support scams are just one particular kind of scam. Nobody is arguing that India has the largest percentage of scammers in general.
- lbrito 3y ago>Nobody is arguing that India has the largest percentage of scammers in general. That is _exactly_ the spirit of what the parent comment was implying: >they justify the scamming by saying (mostly to themselves) things like the West stole from the developing countries, so this is them stealing back That comment doesn't specify India, but is definitively a blanket statement that (most) scammers are from those filthy, no-good third-world, non-Western countries, and justify their dirty third-worldly scams as a "revenge against the West". Its a sad, racist non-argument. Quite depressing that it isn't greytexted into oblivion.
- ted_bunny 3y agoNo, they meant Nigeria too. Relax!
- ric2b 3y agoI don't think India has over 50% of the world's population.