Posted on 12/26/2020 6:16:21 AM PST by blam
Sometimes we have to question the intelligence of Americans. It’s no secret that unhealthy lifestyles and eating mounds of junk food can impair brain function. With that being said, intelligence is lacking for some Americans as thousands were recently swindled out of millions of dollars by a scammy Indian call center.
According to the NYTimes, an Indian call center in Peera Garhi, west of Delhi, tricked victims into believing their bank accounts were frozen as part of an elaborate drug investigation. As many as 4,500 victims were told, they had to transfer money to the scammers or risk serious jail time.
On Dec. 17, as many as 50 people from the call center were arrested. Authorities alleged the employees learned American accents and pretended to be officials of various American law enforcement agencies.
Delhi Police Cybercrime Unit shows police arresting a group suspected of conducting an international scam at a call center in Delhi. Source: NYT
Investigators said the victims were given an ultimatum: Face jail time or take an “alternative dispute resolution” to avoid criminal charges.
Over two years, the call center bilked more than $14 million from gullible Americans who “were asked to buy Bitcoins or Google gift cards worth all the money in their accounts,” said Anyesh Roy, a police officer in New Delhi. The monies were then transferred to what the victims thought was a “safe government wallet” but were actually accounts tied to the call center.
The South China Morning Post said the “call center even had a human resources policy offering graded salary scales, bonuses for Christmas and for those who could get people to capitulate fast, as well as paid holidays.”
The stupidity of some Americans makes you wonder if IQ rates in the country are dropping?
i dont answer the phone if i done know the number, let them leave me a message.. if they do or don’t i block the number
Those ratbastards in India got my email address several years ago and kept sending me emails that I needed to fix virus problems on my desktop.
They had my email and house phone number and would send mail and make calls all day and night long.
For weeks I kept emailing them back and telling them I didn’t need their help and I would figure it out.
I finally answered one of their phone calls and the bastard representing himself (again) as a Microsoft employee told me I would have to give him my passwords and a bank card number in order to clean up my computer.
Told the idiot it was to late for my computer, it was beyond repair.
He kept insisting that they could help if I would just supply the needed information.
I told him that I doubted very much that there was anyway he could repair a 45 caliber hole in the hard drive..
There was a LOOOOOONG silence over the phone until he asked me exactly what I meant.
Told him I took my computer outside and shot it with my Ruger Blackhawk 45 caliber pistol, that would be the last time a computer ever pissed me off.
Never got another email or phone call from those folks!
And, no; I didn’t shoot my damned computer, I called my son and he walked me through cleaning up the messes I had made on it.
Works fine now,
“Criminalizing it hasn’t done so”.
The history of Marijuana’s effects on our Republic has not yet been written. :(
Here’s the history: marijuana made right-statists posing as conservatives say stupid and increasingly politically unpopular things, to the detriment of genuine limited-government conservatism.
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