I was wondering what happened to those guys. You’d think that they would have stopped calling me after the third or fourth time I blasted AC/DC in their ears, but apparently not. Nope, it took a major mass arrest, instead:
Dozens of arrests have been made in the phone scams plaguing American taxpayers. Acting on a tip, 70 call center workers were arrested for their alleged roles in tax-related scams following a police raid on call centers outside of Mumbai, India. More than 750 call center workers were detained in what a police spokesperson characterized as an ongoing investigation.
This was back at the beginning of the month, by the way. Alas, IRS scammers are still very much a thing, but every little bit helps, right?
Huh. The ones hitting my phone number claim to be “Windows technical support”.
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It’s kind of nice to exercise my vocabulary, but you’d think they’d take my number off their list at some point.
Have you seen this? NSFW language warning. https://youtu.be/CuVFcizDwqw
It’d be nice if we could somehow extradite these people to the U.S. and charge them with impersonating a federal officer.
I suspect that the limiting factor there would be how much extradition would cost, per person. I dunno if it’d be worth it for the cold-callers, although the people running the scam are of course a different story altogether.
Frankly I’m sick and tire of the calls informing me about refinancing my mortgage and winning a cruise vacation. Don’t have a mortgage, and I don’t like boat.