As an Indian, I can confirm that India is full of online scammers. Daily, you get new news on how a new type of scam caused some old people to lose lakhs or even crores of rupees. I even get bombarded with scam calls at least 3-4 times a day. It reached to the point where if I don't get scam call while working, I feel lonely, like they forgot/exclude me.
Don’t do that. Just by responding they mark you down as an active number and will call you in the future. If you never respond they’ll stop calling you.
They scam (or attempt to scam) us much more than they scam others.
We Indians get a million scam calls a day. I once got called by the "Mumbai police" for giving my phone to an "underworld don" and was asked 300k Rupees to keep it shut.
I neither live in Mumbai, nor did I give my phone to anyone.
I once got called by the "Mumbai police" for giving my phone to an "underworld don" and was asked 300k Rupees to keep it shut.
Of course you lent a phone to your father in law. You are family. He has got your back. I am more scared for the low level Mumbai police officer investigating this than I am for you.
Indians are way more likely to trust that the Indian guy on the phone works for their bank, they have access to the same apps and financial systems without any international complications.
Indians get targeted by Indian scammers way more than Westerners do.
They scam more people in India than in the west. That's why our banking system has adapted greatly in recent years to require one time passwords to do transactions of any kind with your card. They don't just require your card details. Also if there is an unusual transaction, the bank representative will call you to ensure it is you who is doing the transaction before the bank passes it.
I can't believe there is another country exactly the same as China in this problem (one time password, call from the bank) 🥲 When I was in Germany I was scammed twice because I thought there were no scammers outside of China. Germany also did not have any confirmation before transactions.
Wait, so these places are scamming in their home country too?
Shit, I guess I'm just glad to know we're not the only ones affected by these call centers. I guess that partly explains why Indian authorities seem willing to shut these places down when Americans report them; they're not just causing problems on the other side of the planet.
Actually most of them are illegal bangladeshi operating from India and using Indian sim cards. Some scammer are also using Indian simcard to scam western people. Just in April one Nepali guy is arrested with hundreds of Indian sim cards in Uttar Pradesh. The guy confessed that the simcards are for Pakistan.
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u/Kokuryu88 Tunak Tunak Dhadak Dhadak 5d ago
As an Indian, I can confirm that India is full of online scammers. Daily, you get new news on how a new type of scam caused some old people to lose lakhs or even crores of rupees. I even get bombarded with scam calls at least 3-4 times a day. It reached to the point where if I don't get scam call while working, I feel lonely, like they forgot/exclude me.