Guoabong Investment：India becomes ＂northern American＂？90%of the world's scam calls are made from India. Americans may lose nearly 100 billion US dollars this year.

When northern Myanmar's criminal crimes caused global attention, netizens in the United States and Europe are also worried that fraud is no less than that of India in northern Myanmar.

According to data from the Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI), in 2022, US citizens lost more than $ 10 billion due to the Indian illegal call center, of which 30%of the victims were elderly people over 65 years old.The calculation of Internet security agency Robotkiller believes that if scam text messages, APPs, websites and other channels are counted, it is expected that the loss of fraud suffered by Americans in 2023 will exceed 90 billion US dollars.More international agencies estimate that about 90%to 95%of the world's scam calls are made from India. From the perspective of IP addresses, it is mainly concentrated in the suburbs of cities such as New Delhi and Kolkata.

It is reported that due to language advantages and low human costs, India once became a concentration of telephone customer service for multinational companies.In recent years, although the customer service industry has begun to flow out of the Philippines and other places, some "smart people" who have mastered network technology and can get some personal information of technology giants have begun to make telecommunications fraud into a industry.In the past, deceived Americans often had nowhere to report the case, but as the Federal Communications Agency legislated to telecommunications fraud this year, American victims began to see a hopes for solving problems ...

Fraud techniques are constantly evolving

To adapt to the US national conditions

For residents in the United States, Britain and other countries, the scam calls with Indian accent have become their "nightmares".Under the video news report "Myanmar authorities transferred telecommunications network fraud suspects to India", European and American netizens in the comment area called for "when India can also rectify this scam."Some people complained, "I have to receive 5 scam calls from India every day."

The reason why Indian scammers succeed in these countries have a high rate of success. In addition to the language advantages of English, the continuous "advancement" of fraud techniques is also the main reason.

More than ten years ago, the "car repair" scam was the most popular scam in the United States, but now, scammers have developed a variety of fraud methods.For example, in North America, which is relatively loose in drug controls such as marijuana, scammers will notify the other party that "the police suspect that you are implicated with drug trafficking groups", which will have a high probability that the victims will believe that after all, many people's drug drugs are indeed incompetent.According to the characteristics of American society, scammers will also impersonate real power departments such as the State Taxation Bureau and Immigration Bureau, which makes groups such as illegal immigrants dare not question the identity of scammers.For lonely elderly people, scammers also learned to pretend to be beautiful women to perform "kill piglets".

In June of this year, a case pronounced by the US District Court showed that the scam was clever: scammers notified the victims in the name of federal agents to be investigated, and the property was sold to cash to the designated place.custody.In the Houston region, scammers in the United States should really rent several office locations, and sent people to wear uniforms to pretend to be agents and collect cash sent by the victims.This scam produced hundreds of victims in total, with an amount of more than $ 11 million.

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High -tech fraud is popular

In May of this year, a former Indian scammer who was pseudo -Leio disclosed the inside story of the scam industry he had in detail, shocked the world.

Lio believes that the English advantage and customer service industry are just the bottom tools of the fraud industry. Digital technology is the "important infrastructure" of the scam industry. The developed IT industry in India has made it a hotbed of fraud.In India, the telephone customer service industry was once prosperous, so many people have mastered the skills of talking face -to -face and communication with European and American customers, and can control the situation with a better rhythm and tone.In addition, India has a large number of computer majors to enter the game with a dream of entrepreneurship. After the failure of the entrepreneurial business, many people have embarked on the evil path of crime. These people have technical ability to break through some databases to obtain personal information.

Indian investigation reporter Benzar also expressed a similar point of view. He concluded that "Whether we like it or not, India's telecommunications fraud industry is a by -product of the development of Internet technology. The customer service industry is a software for telecommunications fraud, and IT technology is telecommunicationsThe ultimate goal of the hardware foundation of fraud is to establish a trust relationship between victims and scammers. "

Gulgang is a suburbs of 30 kilometers south of the Indian capital. In the industrial park here, several high -rise buildings are towering abruptly.Benzar said that in Gurgang, you have "the boundaries between real and false."Perhaps the real telephone customer service staff sitting in the office on the first floor of a building may be the real telephone customer service staff of a multinational enterprise, and a group of scammers who look the same next to them or upstairs call the scam call every day.

According to Leo, these scammers work stronger work. They usually work more than 10 hours a day, but the return is also very rich. One day's work can often earn their wages in the past or even a year.For this reason, some scammers "celebrated" in front of the victims on the phone after they succeeded.6800 yuan) I bought a celebration gift for myself.

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Indian police shot to rectify

According to US netizens, after encountering a fraud call from India, there was no channel to report to the United States in the United States.Even if you find some channels on government websites, you often have no following after filling in the form.

In March of this year, the Federal Communications Agency issued a new bill designed to provide support for the victims of telecommunications fraud.According to the agency's statement, from 2015 to 2022, the report from the telecommunications network fraud received by the agency each year increased from 3,300 to 189,000.

In October of this year, after receiving a joint complaint from the two companies of Microsoft and Amazon, the Indian Central Investigation Bureau launched an action code -named "Chakara II" to crack down on criminal activities of "impersonating technical personnel fraud".

Indian police said that the "Chakara II" operation discovered and destroyed the telecommunications fraud dens at 76 places in 12 states.freeze.The operation also arrested 15 gangs using e -mail to scam, and revealed two large multinational scams, involving "an international technology company with a technology -driven international technology -driven international technology company."Microsoft stated that he was one of the influential international companies and found that someone posted as the identity of Microsoft technical supporters for fraud.