Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by H8crilA on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:42AM
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And the upside can be enormous. There's a huge amount of very poor people in India. For example only a few years ago everyone finally got a toilet in their house. Stealing $500 from a slightly demented grandma that is afraid about her medical insurance "running out" can be a lot to them.
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Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by sneed_chucker on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:30AM
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Yeah, but it's not $500. It's frequently people being tricked into transferring huge chunks of their life savings to the scammers. Like 5+ figure sums.
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by joshxyz on Thursday September 21, 2023 @06:56PM
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just the free markets at work
there's a distaste on this one but this is mostly social psychology at work.
there are things people will do to provide for themselves and to improve their quality of life as long as they get away with it.
hell, it can be equated to online copywriters of fake fat loss pills and cosmetic products, people buying identities, vpns, ad accounts.
wherever you go there's always someone tryna take advantage of the sucker in the room.
god i love people, haha.
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by cdchn on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:58AM
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If you watch some of those "scammer gets scammed" videos you can see what the scammers actually think about the grandmas they're stealing from.
Re:India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
by IG_Semmelweiss on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:17AM
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Not necessarily getting scammed, but getting a bit of what they deserve