Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans
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#4I'm not going to read the "article" because it is a transcript and looks a bit rambly and I don't expect it to be talking about anything interesting. But just going to the headline here; consider the base rate. North America has huge per-capita wealth (by a bit of a margin over most other large players). It is expected that scammers would target them and make the most profit there.
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#5Between scammers, the medical industry, H1Bs showing up just for jobs, these reports from DOGE about the pointless nonprofits, PPP loans, private equity buying up businesses, and landlords, etc
America is just becoming a place to extract.
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#6Americans are great marks because we are so relentlessly optimistic
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#7Between scammers, the medical industry, H1Bs showing up just for jobs, these reports from DOGE about the pointless nonprofits, PPP loans, private equity buying up businesses, and landlords, etc America is just becoming a place to extract.
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#8Americans are great marks because we are so relentlessly optimistic
And rich and uneducated.
Re: Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans
#9I'm not going to read the "article" because it is a transcript and looks a bit rambly and I don't expect it to be talking about anything interesting. But just going to the headline here; consider the base rate. North America has huge per-capita wealth (by a bit of a margin over most other large players). It is expected that scammers would target them and make the most profit there.
But why less Europeans? A language barrier for some countries? More regulations about robocalls etc? GDPR and better privacy so our data isn't as easy to exploit?
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#10Americans are great marks because we are so relentlessly optimistic
It helps that marketing that is defined as fraud elsewhere is legal for you ... you get used to it.