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Re:Verified by Twilio by ryanlol on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:00AM (#20836905)
lmao

The issue is that the callers speak English, not German. If you go to Nordic countries where everyone speaks English you get similar calls as in the US.

You can spoof numbers anywhere.

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Re:Verified by Twilio by kristiandupont on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:20AM (#20836990)
I live in Denmark and I don't get calls like that.
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Re:Verified by Twilio by ryanlol on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:24AM (#20837017)
Ok? I’m not saying it’s constant, but you do see it sometimes when the scammers try out new regions.

Stuff like this, which is the very typical US scam https://www.thelocal.se/20140505/swedes-targeted-in-new-micr...

European countries in general just aren’t very attractive to these scams, conversion rates are far lower than in English-speaking countries.

E: Another Danish commenter reports the same calls https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20837015

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Re:Verified by Twilio by jbergens on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:59AM (#20837699)
> European countries in general just aren’t very attractive to these scams, conversion rates are far lower than in English-speaking countries.

You mean we are not as easily fooled? I like this explanation.

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Re:Verified by Twilio by ryanlol on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:04AM (#20837721)
That’s possible too. But I specifically mean that we’re not as easily fooled by Indian call center staff.
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