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Nope, the incentives don't work like that.

I regularly get spam calls in Chinese. My best guess is this is because if they randomly dial Bay Area area codes they sometimes get Chinese people.

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That's the same statement, they wouldn't use a Chinese robo-caller in an area with little to no Chinese population

I'm replying to someone who says the EU is too diverse for it to be worth spammers' effort. If it's worth their time to spam people with northern California area codes in Chinese that makes no sense. Calling people in Germany in German, for example, would be much more reliable.

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