I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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    I ended up on a massive Whatsapp group populated primarily by Indian women after I took a content writing class a few years ago. Made several very good friends. I’ve asked them about the whole Indian scammer thing. One of them said she knows a few, and they do it because they literally don’t have other options for employment. Which makes sense. Rampant, unfettered capitalism forces people to make decisions that go against their conscience for the sake of survival. I feel bad for scammers sometimes, other times I feel less charitable when they’re scamming my dad…

    Whole situation just fucking sucks.

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      If I had the opportunity, I’d still wipe the scammers computer.

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        You absolutely should.

        Scammers escaping poverty by putting a bunch of others into poverty is the very definition of a capitalist and cancer.

        Eat the rich just as you would zap cancer.

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      It’s always an excuse that criminals make - that they don’t have any other options for employment. It’s a shitty excuse when 95% of the country is employed and don’t scam people. It’s easy money for them, nothing more.

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          Those people chose to not scam people I assume, otherwise they would count in the employed (by scammers)

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      I’ve done a lot of thinking about the scam market, and there is no way it isn’t some kind of “CIA is behind the cartels” situation.

      Primary target? Elderly Americans.

      Objective? Bring generational wealth to institutions.

      FCC could stop the vast majority of this shit by using techniques similar to DKIM via VOIP to stop spoofing (STIR/SHAKEN). This problem is solved. Has been for a while.

      I can only assume they don’t drop the hammer because they can take a cut instead.

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        I can only assume they don’t drop the hammer because they can take a cut instead.

        you have way too much faith in a government agencies ability to see, understand, and act on a situation.

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          Thinking they’re too dumb to do this shit is exactly what they want from you

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        Do you really think only Americans are targeted by scammers?

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          I think 80 year old Americans have a disproportionate amount of global wealth, so they are a, as I said, primary target. Yes.

          Give it 15 years and then focus will shift to be predominantly toward UAE.

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            As a European I can assure you 80 yo Americans are living in poverty compared to most Europeans.

            I know that Americans can’t see the other side of the ocean but scam calls are made everywhere.

            I love these Americans who live in their tiny bubble of “America is rich as hell”. In Europe we mostly compare America with countries like Russia and other large but poor countries.

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              Americans wealth index only trails behind Iike 3 EU countries. Your statement is googlably false. (Germany, Norway. Not France Not Britain, not Spain, not Italy…not most of Europe).

              Edit: also, laughs in GDP

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      So you’re buying that explanation that a scammer is escaping poverty by putting a bunch of someone else’s into poverty?

      You just defined Bezos. Lol. You just got double scammed.