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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by igammarays on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:50PM (#22743615)
I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted. Having THE largest rich homogenous market segment in the world with a weak regulatory environment (aka a free market) is probably a huge factor in scam targeting. See also Amazon fake inventory and fake reviews, which are a much bigger problem in Amazon US than in Amazon Canada, for example.
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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by nullc on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:10AM (#22746943)
To me it suggests they're resource limited rather than victim limited currently.

This means they'll exploit the most profitable targets almost exclusively. It doesn't have to be much more profitable, just the most.

If they were victim limited, they'd expand the pool of targets to include the most profitable N until they became resource limited again.

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