Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
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Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
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#2“It may not be a national security concern yet, but the reputation (of a country) is involved, and we don’t want India to suffer on that count,” Daud told the publication.
What about the victims?
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#4“It may not be a national security concern yet, but the reputation (of a country) is involved, and we don’t want India to suffer on that count,” Daud told the publication. What about the victims?
It's an Indian news site. The framing makes sense for a domestic (and expat) audience.
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My understanding is that most of these scams use spoofed numbers (or legitimate forwarding numbers), so there's no "just ignore it" remediation. SHAKEN/STIR[1] is meant to address this kind of spoofing, but it's not a stretch to imagine that these kinds of scams mostly target older people who are less likely to have (or understand) Caller ID anyways.
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I know you're joking, but you might not want to try that with a nuclear power.
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Due to that whole lack of authentication I. The phone system, we get lots of spoofed numbers here in the US. I ignore most unknown calls but manage to answer maybe one a month that is an obvious foreign (usually Indian sounding) call center.
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USA carriers should probably just block them like they do almost every Chinese phone number.
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#10“It may not be a national security concern yet, but the reputation (of a country) is involved, and we don’t want India to suffer on that count,” Daud told the publication. What about the victims?
To be fair, the person who made that statement is the FBI's legal attaché in New Delhi. One would expect a person in such a position to say something like that, to smooth relations with the host country.
But yes, I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice and the victims receive some kind of recompense.