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> My second thought was the majority of this type of fraud is probably from foreign impersonation, not Americans. There's an industry for it in India, because they can source english call center workers there fairly easily. The youtuber Mark Rober ran into a couple of US mules for these sorts of scams while working on one of his prank videos, and decided to team up with some other youtubers to troll some of these companies in India. The video on it is worth watching: ▶ this video

in “FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals” · View on HN

I think the definition of cyber crime is what is important here. I think there are huge buildings with call centers in India dedicated to cyber crime. Thousands of people. Nothing to do with tech skills. Here is Mark Rober basically bringing the war to their shores with incredible pranks: ▶ this video

in “India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots” · View on HN

I thought this was pretty great: ▶ this video My favorite part is when the guy uses the scammers real name and she panics.

in “What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?” · View on HN

Anecdata of 4 call centers, yet no one in this video really seems like someone that being exhorted to do crime ▶ this video

in “India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots” · View on HN