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Indian accent: "Alright mam, when you install this app, I will contact you tomorrow and we can proceed with the transfer. For security reasons, don't tell anyone you received this call."
Right, the real solution is not letting old people answer phone calls anymore, I guess, lol.
Whats even better is that they usually just use team viewer for remote access, which is ON THE PLAY STORE
That's so much extra work and chance for them to ask someone they know.
The real sollution is to lock India off the internet until they crack down on all their scammers.
There are scammer call centers in many countries throughout the world. So unless you want to start shutting off a lot of developing nations from the internet, that's not a good solution.
It's also not a good solution because there will always be a workaround.
I have to say some countries are really heavy on this. Myanmar and some provinces in India. Usually it's corrupt governments profiting from the scams so they turn a blind eye.
There should be more international pressure on this. Geoblocks won't help because they'll just proxy. But completely withholding development aid until they stop their crimes will.
Also putting the top figures on international ban lists of course.
Ban phone calls? It's long overdue.
Why do we even need to have a phone number just to have access to the internet on the go?
The work around is to get Jason Statham to live out his Beekeeper role IRL.
Is this winston churchhill?
Hey maybe you're not racist, maybe you're just watching too many youtube videos
I basically never watch Youtube, its kind of cancer and Google is a spyware company.
And this isn't about race, its about a country cleaning up its own act. I feel basically the same way about Russia, for example. There isn't an online servixe or system that sould not drasticly improve if Russians were blocked from the larger web. Its basically a factory for misinformation and assholes.
Don't worry buddy, I get it. I feel the same way about USA
The question is then if you feel the same about Russia, China, Iran, and Israel?
I mean, yes, but not nearly as much
Yes, there are many problematic states, probably all of them. That's why people thought it was sus when you singled out india.
My advice: Download a geo-IP database and firewall yourself in.