RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
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Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#2Good for the Canadian cops! Tax money well spent.
Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#3> ""We have disrupted the necessary flow of money from Canada to India, which will have a big impact on the operation and bottom line of scammers," Ogden said Friday, in announcing the charges."
Perhaps so, but to what extent and for how long? How many other mules are there, and how long will it take them to find replacement mules to replace those arrested?
I hope they throw the book at the mules, but I don't expect this to be a real solution to the problem.
Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#4Wow... They got THREE people out of the hundreds involved with the scams. Good jorb!!!! I feel so much safer now.
Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#5I get 2-3 calls like these every week. It's getting really bad.
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#6I get 2-3 calls like these every week. It's getting really bad.
Until about a month ago, I used to get 2-3 a day on my work phone. I gave up answering, and there's about 200 voicemails in there in a language I don't speak.
Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#7How about putting a small tariff on every phone call originating from countries that do not shut down these fraudulent call centers? The tariff perhaps could be as small as 2 or 10 cents per call to make these operations unprofitable. I'm sure that the telecom operators in the foreign country could easily track down (or already know precisely where to find) the call centers. Once the fraud falls below a threshold the tariff can be removed.
Punitive tariffs, quotas, bans get applied to every kind of product -- counterfeits, contaminated foods, polluting vehicles. I never heard any government agency suggest applying it to countries that are the overwhelming source of scam calls.
Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#8> ""We have disrupted the necessary flow of money from Canada to India, which will have a big impact on the operation and bottom line of scammers," Ogden said Friday, in announcing the charges." Perhaps so, but to what extent and for how long? How many other mules are there, and how long will it take them to find replacement mules to replace those arrested? I hope they throw the book at the mules, but I don't expect…
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Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#9The kind of stories that makes into HN Front page these days is deplorable. High time to write a filter of my own.
Re: RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
#10How about putting a small tariff on every phone call originating from countries that do not shut down these fraudulent call centers? The tariff perhaps could be as small as 2 or 10 cents per call to make these operations unprofitable. I'm sure that the telecom operators in the foreign country could easily track down (or already know precisely where to find) the call centers. Once the fraud falls below a threshold the…
The phone system seems pretty absurd. Just the fact that we can't trust originating phone numbers seems odd. There's lots of good ideas to go around, and there's so much in internet technology that could be applied to the phone system, but I'd love to read an article on why its hard to update the phone system.