This is more depressing than it is funny
As an Indian, I would like to congratulate everyone here, you tax returns are here, but there is a spelling mistake in your name and it would take $5000 to correct it, please call 1800420SCAM to get your refund.
bad jokes aside, these are the scum of the country and I am sorry for this shit.
If we're apologizing for national issues that aren't our fault, I'd like to say sorry for mass-shootings, exploiting poor people and the widening wealth-gap, and (worst of all) obnoxiously loud Americans abroad!
Hey! Someone from India!
I watch lots of scambaiting videos and I know all about the public sentiment you guys have about scammers
It's a damn shame the police in India are so easy to bribe... not that American cops are any better
American cops will rob you and then arrest you too.
There's normally at least one person waiting at the door to every scam call center waiting to give a big bag of money to the police to go away
Sometimes the guy at the door will direct the cops to a legit call center to throw them off
I know Truecaller is a privacy nightmare, but that could still help old / tech illiterate people against being scammed. Is this not available in the US?
Nah, Indian people are not to blame. This post is just racist, white people do the same kind of scams just as often but the OP only notices the ones where the call center agent sounds like an accent they associate with Indian people.
thank you for looking out for us brownies out there, but unfortunately no, most of the scammers are in India and Nigeria (two developing countries). Indian people are not to blame 100% but we are not doing anything at all to stop this shit, trust me once you see how rotten the system is here, you will understand how the government and law enforcement are not taking action against this.
I mean, of c the economy, lack of jobs and knowledge of English language have made them fertile soil for these types of scam camps.
I know it clearly works, and old people do definitely fall for it, but I'll never understand how. What part of the script makes it sound reasonable that the IRS would want amazon gift cards instead of, you know, a cash transfer or something?
They make it sound like they are only notifying you that you are about to be arrested. They don't ask for payment and fake refuse the first offer if the mark offers. Then, when the madk is very worried they are about to go to jail, it is much easier for them to believe whatever because it's harder to think when you are panicking. So something like "our payment system is down so we cant take payment with cards right now. You need to pay within 30 minutes or I can't reverse it. I guess I can pay out of pocket, but you need to get me the equal amount of gift cards" or some shit like that.
Gullible, scared, lack of critical thinking, blindly following authorities, there are many reasons. It's not only old people, thought.
Don't forget pathological problems like forgetfulness, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Scammers have no qualms with stealing from people with disabilities.
I'm convinced it's because a shit load of old people have committed, and so far gotten away with, serious crimes at some point.
Random calls from "authority" decades later stun locks their brain in a memory loop.
Many real scams are not this obvious, plus a lot of old people are senile to some degree, which these scammers are exploiting. My grandma was contacted by "her bank" about verifying her identity, and after a few minutes of establishing a backstory they asked her for her debit card info including CVV. It all sounded very legit, and they even "transferred her to another department" with hold music and everything. Luckily, she didn't fall for it.
along with other replies generally you become more gullible/less able to think of alternative explanations as you age, so even some "obvious" scams look legit
It's the amount of money that makes it worth it. If they are successfull the amount is usually something like $10,000-$30,000. If they are only successful once every 2000 calls thats still worth it. Now you would say 2000 calls with 50 people in a call center means they are only successful once every few days and you are totally correct. But you have to put this into consideration with what they are usually paid. If you work in IT for huge companies like Accenture or McKinsey you will earn around 8-10k if you are in upper management and 6-8k if you are a normal worker. That's yearly. So every successful scam for these scam companies pays up to 5 peoples yearly salary
Scammers intentionally use typo's to weed out the intelligent people.
They pry on the lowest denominators, since they know they can convince them of anything.
I get unexplainable joy watching scammers get scammed on YouTube.
My favourite scam scammer is kitboga.
Kitboga's work is just epic. With all the programs he develops, sound effects, other people to help him, etc he uses it's just like a modern day version of a radio hear play.
It isn't just entertainment, it's art.
lol, I literally read the title in his "old woman voice" 😂
Me too!
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Yet they still have the courage to say "my generation was smarter than kids these days"
Dumb people are the most courageous, no?
People only think theyre smarter because there wasnt social media to show how stupid they really were.
We're all gonna get old and some of us are going to get dementia. I have a hard time pointing at vulnerable people whose brains are nearly expired and saying "Haha jeez what noobs, how could they be such idiots?"
It's pretty easy when they do the same to younger people.
Autistic? No you're not you're just an asshole.
ADHD? No you're not you're just lazy and annoying.
Fuck em. Not my fault they voted against their self interests to the point they can't get medical assistance for their brain rot.
I had a moment with one of these around 2010. Car insurance scam and these weren’t in the news all the time. Much lower pressure and I still had my card in my hand before I thought to ask what model car I had. He hung up.
I'm kinda convinced Dell sold my details to Indian scammers. I didn't have my laptop long before I started getting calls from "Dell Apple Microsoft tech support" about the computer sending them virus reports. I'm sure wanting me to let them remote into the machine, or run some other computer-based scam.
They had to have gotten the info from Dell; they knew the model number of the machine.
So I had someone who spoke with a thick accent wanting me to press Ctrl+Alt+R or whatever the run dialog hotkey in Windows is and run some commands. So I did exactly what he wanted me to do. And nothing happened. Because Linux Mint doesn't bind anything to Ctrl+Alt+R by default. Last thing I heard him say was "Listen, you fucking guy..."
I should have wasted more of his time, the parasite.
God, my mom just got nailed by one of these this weekend. It's easy for people to be like "how could you be so stupid?" But the people running this shit are so manipulative and demanding, all they need to do is to be forceful and threatening. Protect yourselves and your loved ones, folks.
If they start threatening, can't you just say 'I need to discuss this with my lawyer' and cut the call? Or start asking information from them so you can share it with your lawyer?
I don't get how scams work. Every time I get a scam call I stay on the line or press 1 or whatever to find out what the scam is, but no one ever tries to scam me. They just act like a normal business till I hang up. Can they tell by your voice you aren't gullible or something?
My wife and I cared for her grandmother in her final years. This old woman learned to hand the phone to me when it was a scammer because I'd hassle them with whatever persona I wanted to use that day. I'm no Kitboga but she thought it was funny. And nobody got any money from her.
It seemed like they would try to get some small amount from her at first - like $250. She got caught out by it once, where she paid them the small amount, then they would come back "needing" a larger (five-figure) amount.
If it's important, they'll leave a message so I can call them back. That's my policy if I don't recognize the number.
Here in Canada we have tons of "your package is here and you need to pay fees/taxes to get it" scam calls and texts. It sounds reasonable enough if you are actually waiting for a package and aren't too savy about these things. The worst part is real delivery companies do sometimes contact you that way, though they usually text you and direct you to their site which can be verified (always always check the URL of the site and also make sure it's HTTPS). Still I once disregarded a real one asking me to pay taxes and ended up actually delaying my package.
The most disgusting ones I've gotten are the immigration scam calls, basically "there's a problem with your PR card or it's expired or something and if you don't pay a fee right now you'll be deported." In Mandarin too, really exploiting the fears of immigrants. I'm still trying to figure out if it's actually targeted since I actually am a Chinese immigrant (now a Canadian citizen so don't even have a PR card anymore) or if they just randomly call different numbers, but I've only gotten robocalls in English or Mandarin which I speak and no other languages, so IDK. Anyone know?
If you're in Toronto or have a Toronto number they target Mandarin since it's incredibly prevalent in the city. Those are also the only 2 languages I receive as well.
I'm in Vancouver so that checks out too. Huge Chinese diaspora here.
I'm also Canadian and I do get random calls in Mandarin sometimes. I didn't know what they saying so I just hung up, but I guess it's likely they were scam calls along these lines.
HTTPS means nothing. All sites are HTTPS these days. If your only check for a scam is that then you're fucked
Correct, which is why you primarily need to check the URL and particularly the domain. I mention HTTPS because if you're on the right domain and it's not HTTPS when it should be, you're most likely getting MITM'd or another such attack is being used.
People who fall for scams like those aren't always stupid.
They're not always old people
With the IRS scam, they usually use the remote desktop software they direct you to to lock you out of your device
Then they'll extort you for the thousands of dollars worth of gift cards
After they have the codes from the gift cards they'll exchange them for crypto currency and/or sell them for even more than what's on them
And after the scam is done they keep the connections on all the remote desktop apps open so they can spy on them for future scams
Yeah it's kinda stupid to give people access to your computer like that.
If you didn't already hang up after a few seconds on the phone you are indeed stupid.
If only they did their own research
God where did you find this image?
Quick OP, answer! So that I can never ever visit this site!
You can make any dumb American do anything you want if you lead with a threat.
The very instant they are threatened, any tiny amount of critical thought they ever had instantly goes out the proverbial window.
Why would it matter if the voice is "Indian?"
Because that's what like 99% of scam calls sound like.
That's not true, you just don't recognize it when they're European, because you're a racist. Cope about it. Bye.
