I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
Mumbai call centre scam: ‘Nothing's wrong in duping rich Americans’
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#12A classic case of the monkey sphere [1].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130112050503/http://www.cracke...
Re: Mumbai call centre scam: ‘Nothing's wrong in duping rich Americans’
#13I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
Except the article states that they were living in a "posh" downtown apartment.
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#14I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
Except the article states that they were living in a "posh" downtown apartment.
Presumably their call center employees weren't.
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#15I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
I agree - if my only option to make money was to work for someplace like that, I'd take it - but at the same time, I have no love for someone trying to steal my money - which I'm using to feed my child and mostly keep her out of filthpiles.
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#16I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India
"if I'm a father with no opportunity" suffices.
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#17I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
I have to agree with you on this one. But not as a "father with no opportunity". While I am not advocating or condoning what scammers in India do, I do have to add the following:
1) 1 USD is around 66 INR, so almost everyone is ingrained that people in USA are richer. Furthermore, the fact that stuff is perceived as "cheaper" in USA has not helped (even those who earn minimum wage in USA, can afford the latest iPhone, can't say the same about those in India).
2) Scammers can't see the damage they cause.
3) Some scammers don't even know they are scammers. (Especially the ones in IT that try to sell you anti-virus software claiming that your computer is infected).
4) personal note: I wonder what the sentence would be, if say it were US scammers, scamming Indians.
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#18I'll get downvoted, but if I'm a father with no opportunity in rural India. This is exactly what I'd be doing. You might be a better man to allow your children starve in a pile of there own filth, but I'm not him.
I have to agree with you on this one. But not as a "father with no opportunity". While I am not advocating or condoning what scammers in India do, I do have to add the following: 1) 1 USD is around 66 INR, so almost everyone is ingrained that people in USA are richer. Furthermore, the fact that stuff is perceived as "cheaper" in USA has not helped (even those who earn minimum wage in USA, can afford the latest iPhone…
Sidenote:
For some reason, a lot of people confuse the exchange rate with purchasing power, but these are distinct.
For example, 1 INR is 1.5 Yen, but the Japanese aren't 1.5 times as poor as the Indians (on average).
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#19The article doesn't mention what was the scam they did? Anyone know?
I saw other news stories about it. They would pretend to be an IRS call center and tell the callee they owed back taxes. The real IRS will send you mail if you owe back taxes, and instruct you to call them .
The real IRS reject further returns and post a message telling you why. I then had to go in person, sit with them and fix the paperwork...
Re: Mumbai call centre scam: ‘Nothing's wrong in duping rich Americans’
#20A classic case of the monkey sphere [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130112050503/http://www.cracke...