Watch Jim Browning's videos where he goes in depth in to the lives of some scammers.
Some are educated and happy with a wife and kids. Some managers are make $7,000 USD a month. You can see security footage where they are having fun and doing drugs.
I'm sure people get in to debt and they have to work but I don't think most of the low caste people have enough experience to have conversational skills in English.
From the what I can tell, these people that are working in these scam centers are just human trash that think they deserve to still money from people better off than them.
this is the first post I see mentioning this. gambling debt is the driver for all kinds of criminal activity in these countries. men will get drunk and gamble their motorbike, their fucking house, their parents house. they burn money as an offering, hoping their dead ancestors will show them more clues about lucky numbers.
loan sharks will call their place of work and harass them, threaten their wife and children. the guy will steal from his family members, maybe gamble some more hoping to have better luck. they have a dream about a goat turning to the left and stamping its foot a certain number of times and then turning to the right and taking a shit.
this is completely normal. it's culturally accepted. so many of these guys are completely fucked, and have completely screwed over their wives and their parents and their brother's families.
the other thing that gets them into trouble are blatant cheesy scams that no american would fall for unless they were like 90 years old with dementia. the level of effort required to lure these people is unbelievably low. they send a little bit of money to the scammer and then they send more and then more and the scammer just eventually bleeds them dry. pyramid schemes and shit like that. they borrow money from the friends in order to get their money out, and then their friends money is gone too. and of course his friend lent him money, because friends in these countries always lend each other money. everyone is lending money to everyone else.
my family members that live here are being scammed constantly. my mother-in-law has fallen for scams on facebook multiple times this year. she is spending retirement money on scams. it's like they've got a scam budget. money is switching hands between family members and then flowing out into scams. "hey look at this I think you should try it" and then the scammer has multiple people in the same family sending money.
they didn't really have the internet until just a few decades ago. other cultures grew out of this shit, but these guys have no idea. they're extremely vulnerable. I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.
Kind of reminds me of a story my brother told of some country in Africa. He was friendly with some kids on the street and showed them how to set up an email address. So one day they came excitedly up to him and told him that they met someone and that they would be rich. Of course he immediately clocked the familiar scam.
He explained the whole situation by telling them that the internet was like the street. Don't trust anyone. That was an analogy they got pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don't understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I'd tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people's brain shuts off or something.
it's all Facebook and phone from what I've observed. but it's the same shit. and the schemes are not complicated. invest your money here and see it double in a week. invest more to earn more. they let people withdraw a little bit to earn trust, and when they've got a shitload of money they ghost.
there are fake businesses everywhere too. send money for some product or service and get nothing. easy.
Education and economic opportunity aren't really genetically moderated. Unless you mean it's going to take multiple generations' time strictly because it may take decades to improve upon those because such infrastructure and policy has a lot of resistance from the ruling class.
I recommend watching John Oliver’s segment on the pig butchering scam, it was very eye opening for me. They are basically slaves, overworked and beaten by their owners. The bigger scumbags are the ones exploiting them and their victims.
I still don't understand why people take calls from unknown numbers. 9 out 10 calls on my dad's landline are scam and I blocked a lot already (as in number ranges).
On my cell phone you are either in my contacts or you are blocked immediately.
I have way too many things I need to answer that I don't know the number of, and/or get mislabeled by the phone company, to do that, or trust "scam likely".
My primary care physician's office is scam likely
My neurosurgeon's office is scam likely
My neurologist's office is scam likely
I have a feeling the phone company, or whoever they get those labels from, might just be putting any number for a business name, linked to an Indian name, as "scam likely". They don't get my Orthopedic surgeon's office wrong, or my nephrologist's, or my endocrinologist's, or my podiatrist's and those are ones with European names. Everyone else, scam likely, even ones I didn't list here, everyone else are doctors from India/Indian decent.
I also get a lot of calls from government phones, and other private businesses, that just show "unknown", or a number I don't recognize, but are important for me to answer. I don't know these numbers ahead of time, because they don't know who is going to call me back when these contacts are arraigned.
There are programs now that if they have like 12 seconds of audio of your doctor talking they can recreate it in ai and call you and ask you for anything they want. From pretty much any number they want.
I basically do mail only unless I initiate the call myself.
I answer most calls but rarely get them. When it's a scam, it's usually the "play a recording and only use a real person if they push 1 at the end of it to talk to a real person" type. I'll either hang up quickly or if I'm feeling bored and trollish I'll hit 1 and pick apart their plot holes (like if they say there's a warrant or my package is being held, why the fuck do they need to ask for my name?). Then they get frustrated that I pushed the button when I clearly know it's a scam and hang up. I think the reason it's rare that I get those calls is because they also put me on a "waste of time, don't call" list or something like that.
I setup an IVR on my parents landline and a whitelist to bypass it if they're on the 'contact list'. Doesnt stop manual callers, but it stops all the automated calls.
That is not how it works. Most scam callers are generally hail from poor families and that generally has nothing to do with caste. Caste is less of a factor in urban areas than in rural areas.
What they are doing is pretty scummy. Being poor doesn't absolve them of the stuff they do: cheating the vulnerable out of their money. I have no sympathy for them.
Some of them are in it for the love of the game. For whatever reason I get a shit load of spam calls to my work phone and sometimes I'll fuck with them. I can't remember what I was telling this dude, but he started slurring his words and I asked him if he was ok and if he had any plans for the weekend. I hung up like a minute later and the dude called me back. I just asked him why and he was like "I dunno lol".