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Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

3 years ago by L4sBot to c/technology

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Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft::Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token

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LordBelphegor 33 points 3 years ago

Lets see if they actually charge them

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dack 49 points 3 years ago

They almost certainly won't. Every so often they make a big show of these raids and then quietly drop it later. Check out some of Jim Browning's videos to see how the raids work out.

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drmoose 29 points 3 years ago

They'll just move house again. India has done absolutely nothing to address this which is disgusting.

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maynarkh 17 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it's weird though why specifically in India these call centres pop up and not anywhere else?

Can't it have anything to do with Western companies outsourcing there en masse to fuck over Western workers, thus making it plausible that someone with a thick Indian accent is calling you on behalf of them?

Or the fact that Indian wages are kept artificially low, with abysmal workers rights, as is common with the countries doing the lion's share of the world's manufacturing, so it makes sense for people to live off of the literal scraps of Westerners?

I think the real disgusting thing is that the relatively small amounts of money that you can scam out of westerners is able to sustain a whole industry in India. If these guys got proper jobs with proper pay, they wouldn't need to do this to get ahead.

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