A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry

Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry by aziaziazi on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:33AM (#36210659)

The reputation you describe is non existant in my (non-English-speaking) country. I guess US and UK are just the easiest and richest targets for Indian hackers. Why should we expect something else ?

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Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry by fakedang on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:39AM (#36211173)

It's the language barrier. Germany is targeted by Turks and Eastern Europeans in similar fashion.

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Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry by magnusmundus on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:30AM (#36211636)

I think you severely overestimate German speakership in Turkey.

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Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry by dspillett on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:15AM (#36212174)

I think the point was more that there are fewer German speakers in India than English speakers, by a large margin, so if you are going to scam in German you might be more likely to source your call-centre operatives from elsewhere, which is why Indian call centres don't have the reputation in that country which they do in the UK & US.

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Re:A Confession Exposes India’s Hacking Industry by felixg3 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:39PM (#36220647)

Some of them might be former residents of Germany. Most of my spam calls came from Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey or Bulgaria, most of the spoken German was pretty decent. Good old times when I had time for scambaiting.

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