Not sure there is a way to fall any lower for people engaged in this criminal activity. Literal scrapping the barrel tier individuals here.
Morality is a luxury. When you're living in the slums of some godforsaken city and have a family to feed, empathy and morality kind of fall lower in the list of importance.
My point - every organization should assume worst actors possible. "No way anyone would scam sick people" is just projecting your own moral standards onto others who have no reason to share them, and that attitude may even make them more vulnerable as targets.
What's your point, am I not allowed to share my thoughts unless they directly challange the comment I'm replying to?
>My point - every organization should assume worst actors possible. "No way anyone would scam sick people" is just projecting your own moral standards onto others who have no reason to share them, and that attitude may even make them more vulnerable as targets.
Which is something he never said or suggested, and not any moral projecting he did at all.
Where I live bank employees usually target old people to sell them services for things they don't need.
I'd also argue that anyone with enough sophistication to pull off a ransomware attack has enough marketable skills that they're probably not hungry or desperate, just psychopathic.
The hackers don’t do it to feed their family, they do it because of greed.
In my younger days I did spend a few uncomfortable weeks as a telemarketer (doing product surveys for market research) but even that bothered me, I can't imagine scamming the sick and elderly. You can have morals and dignity even in poverty. I'll concede that some countries provide more options for their people than others, but there are always other options.