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A huge part of the scam market is directly traceable to India. It's even part of it's culture and society is what I was trying to say.

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All of these scamming companies are subcontracted to by Americans. The employees there are just poor people manning phone desks - as long as it is wihtin the law they are not doing anything wrong. The Americans who subcontract to them are the ones who are representing the culture of scamming.

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I have been to one of these scam call centres. The workers there are just paid per 'lead'. They read off a script and the if the person at the other end agrees to part with the information, then they add the information to the form and get paid for it. This is standard call centre marketing and ton of legit businesses do it also. From an operators point of view it is hard to figure out if the scheme is a scam or not. Call centers are getting paid per 'lead' - irrespective of what the business makes out of it - legal or not.

So the 'source' is some modi15 and does not even establish the claim that these are American operations. Got it.

>It's even part of it's culture and society is what I was trying to say

Wow; this is an atrocious and racist statement if i have ever seen one.

You ought to be banned.

I don't say every Indian is a scammer but what I'm saying that if someone needs a job real badly, it's easy to pick to work for a scamming company because the government enables them.

How you turn this into me being racist is just something I chose to ignore to keep it civil.

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