Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

www.theregister.com India uses info from Microsoft & Amazon to bust support scam

Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token

Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft::Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token

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I guess the police were running low on bribe money.
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- Bro watch Narcos Mexico. Its crazy how the cops in these countries operate. Anyone here ever been to India ? I think its like mexico. I have never been to both countries but they look kinda same in movies.
  
  Bro watch lord of the rings. It's crazy how many orcs there are
  
  You’ve never been to either country, yet you make assumptions based on fucking movies?? Let me guess, you believe in aliens! And elves, and hobbits, and faeries! Educate yourself, then opine. Or at least, hide your ignorance a little, jfc.
  
  These countries?
Lets see if they actually charge them
- They almost certainly won't. Every so often they make a big show of these raids and then quietly drop it later. Check out some of Jim Browning's videos to see how the raids work out.
- They'll just move house again. India has done absolutely nothing to address this which is disgusting.
  
  Yeah, it's weird though why specifically in India these call centres pop up and not anywhere else?
  
  Can't it have anything to do with Western companies outsourcing there en masse to fuck over Western workers, thus making it plausible that someone with a thick Indian accent is calling you on behalf of them?
  
  Or the fact that Indian wages are kept artificially low, with abysmal workers rights, as is common with the countries doing the lion's share of the world's manufacturing, so it makes sense for people to live off of the literal scraps of Westerners?
  
  I think the real disgusting thing is that the relatively small amounts of money that you can scam out of westerners is able to sustain a whole industry in India. If these guys got proper jobs with proper pay, they wouldn't need to do this to get ahead.
"Rings"? Am I too sleep-deprived or does the headline make no sense with that in it?

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