[kube-system]

The US just has large number of people in one country code who mostly speak English, have high incomes, a uniform retail landscape ("go to CVS and get a Google Play card" works everywhere), and an abundance of options for telephony.

It's not like Indian scammers are beholden to EU law but not US law.

[Diesel555]

We also have policy problems. As previous commenters with experience in the industry point out, this problem is easy to solve. It’s not a technical problem, it’s a policy problem.

It’s not an ideals problem. Even very conservative economists would agree that there exists a negative externality in the transaction between the call center and the telecom company on the person being called where there should be some cost on the transaction to account for that externality.

So, it’s not even a conservative liberal thing (intentionally not using party names as those names may not reflect conservative or liberal ideals). It’s a policy problem. Write your member of congress.

[iudqnolq]

Nope, the incentives don't work like that.

I regularly get spam calls in Chinese. My best guess is this is because if they randomly dial Bay Area area codes they sometimes get Chinese people.

[chucksta]

That's the same statement, they wouldn't use a Chinese robo-caller in an area with little to no Chinese population

[iudqnolq]

I'm replying to someone who says the EU is too diverse for it to be worth spammers' effort. If it's worth their time to spam people with northern California area codes in Chinese that makes no sense. Calling people in Germany in German, for example, would be much more reliable.

[FooBarBizBazz]

So basically, monocrops are vulnerable to pests.