Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by mattw2121 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:03AM
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My 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).
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.
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by spacecadet on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:39AM
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Even "mobs" operated as legit businesses. Agreed, to suggest some of the criminals would not attempt the same ruse is nieve.
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by lo_zamoyski on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:52AM
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Some 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.
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by niel1 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:05AM
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Could you please share any sources or references that support your argument?
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by edgineer on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:42AM
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Mark Rober's video mentions co-location of scammers with legit business, naming them
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by Hikikomori on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:36AM
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From what I've seen of every phone scammer case they're in an office and look like a normal call centre.
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.)