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Track them down and do what? Are you deploying a local police officer to arrest a scammer in India? It seems to me that in the vast majority of cases, law enforcement efforts will immediately run into jurisdiction issues, and most of the effort will be for nothing.

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That's probably true for some part of the scams, but others are domestic. The one I was looking into was most likely speaking German natively, and from what I could tell, he was a German in Germany (some info pointed to a specific German state, and his homedir was a common German first name).

You'll still have scammers from India, but you'll also have a lot that are running more elaborate scams and do a lot of damage by defrauding the government and companies.

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