Why are there so many tech support scammers in India ?

We often see scammers in India being caught by the police running multi-million dollar schemes , yet the problem doesn’t seem to go away . As one is cut down , more take it’s place and continue the process . According to independent research , around 50-60% of all techsupport scammers are Indians , so what gives ? To solve this problem , we must understand it first . Below are a few factors that make scamming easy :

• Competition – The Indian population crisis has created many problems , one of the greatest being unemployment and ruthless competition in the workforce . Every year 10 million people join the workforce while the economy and government fail to create new jobs or give companies more incentives to create more jobs and expand in India . Thus , we are beginning to see why it is lucrative for people to become scammers . Their ethics and morals go right down the window and they become jaded overtime .

• Language barrier , or lack thereof – Around 125 million people speak English in India , making it the world’s second largest English-speaking country . Furthermore , as most if not all of these scammers are young high school or college graduates , it is a skill they develop overtime . These scammers take advantage of the timezones and work in the day to scam people in the US , UK and other English speaking countries .

• Cost – Setting up a ” Tech support business ” isn’t very costly , a few computers and a decent internet connection is all you need in most cases . The employees get paid minimally ( around $1600 – $3200 anually in Kolkata ) and they are worked to death as is tradition in all Indian companies . Therefore , as we can see it is quite easy to set up a ” business ” like this and the potential rewards to be gained are huge .

Looking at all this we must wonder , the police must be doing something right ? Nope , I can say the police in India are as corrupted as they come . They harass and mistreat people all the time so relying on them to uphold law and order is foolish . No , as always we must take it upon ourselves to fix the things that the government is there to sort out .

We must take initiative , here are some sources that can give you an insight into how these scammers behave so that you can identify them easily :

• Jim Browning : https://www.youtube.com/c/JimBrowning
• Scambaiter : https://www.youtube.com/c/Scambaiter/videos

Here are a few places where you can report these scams and ask the authorities to ban them from operating in your country :

USA – https://www.usa.gov/stop-scams-frauds

UK – https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

Australia – https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/report-a-scam

EU – http://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-cybercrime-online

India – https://sfio.nic.in/

It is crucial that we make people aware and give them resources to combat these scammers . Sharing the information provided can also help your loved ones .

Indian culture and society is also to blame where people are not rewarded for honesty . People here tend to justify scams by saying it’s what the Europeans did to us back in the day . Whether or not two wrongs make it right , I leave up to you . I personally believe it doesn’t and these people trying to legitimise their clearly heinous actions should take a long hard look at the mirror , because they have been conning peple long enough to forget what their priciples are .

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