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While you may well be correct in other cases, my local intuitions led me to wikipedia's [0] references to a NYT article, which claims that the scam centers in the town they are cutting power, etc., to primarily target Chinese victims. Since the abductees and other staff manning these call centers are mostly Chinese, it makes sense their victims are too. China is rich enough that they don't need to go to the extra hassle to find western-speakers. In fact, through both local news and second-hand accounts, I know there are even Thais who get tricked and abducted to scam Thais! Scammers are just equal opportunity about their cons: even the poorest bumpkin with a positive smartphone balance is welcome to ride on their roller-coster of desire and loss.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myawaddy?wprov=sfti1#Crime

ed: deduplicate to; regret the last 28 minutes of my life.

Yes it does.

What year did you graduate that you developed this opinion? I received many Bs across a variety of departments while doing my BA from '96-2000. Getting As was significantly harder than it had been in highschool because of how much smarter and more hard-working the average student was at Harvard than they had been at the elite private school I had previously been on a scholarship to. The one time I contested a B I got rejected by the head of department in a meeting that took less than 30 seconds; he was so brutal about my result compared to those who got an A I never dared to contest another grade again - the curve they graded against was very strong in my time...

Well said, thank you for saving me from having to take the time to say it myself!

Because TrueMove is the number two cellular provider in Thailand, LINE is the number one chat app in Thailand, and Thailand is one of the countries with the highest FB usage rates last time I saw such data...

Thanks for pointing out conceptnet. On GraphWords, "synonym" only returns "equivalent word", conceptnet adds "antonym" (as entire category!) as I'd been looking for...

Thailand has delivery and bill payment too.

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