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by resfirestar
1013 days ago
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I’m more than a little skeptical that scams would be less of a problem if specific countries cracked down on large operations. For one thing it’s not clear how you’d ever get the whole world on board. Pressuring India is hard enough, try Myanmar, a place that doesn’t get along with the West at all and is already a hotspot for phone scams targeting Chinese speakers. And if centralized, relatively open operations overseas were no longer possible, it would likely become more like other types of fraud run by local gangs. So I’m all for pressuring India to crack down on scammers, but I don’t see how that would reduce the desire to tighten software controls on PCs. |
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You don't need the whole world. The Western world is enough - no Internet and phone service (both easily enforced by requiring providers to reject ASNs / phone country codes) means a lot of lost business for an affected country.
> Pressuring India is hard enough, try Myanmar, a place that doesn’t get along with the West at all and is already a hotspot for phone scams targeting Chinese speakers.
Honestly, that's China's problem to solve.
> So I’m all for pressuring India to crack down on scammers, but I don’t see how that would reduce the desire to tighten software controls on PCs.
When software vendors don't have to gate more and more features behind more and more obnoxious bullshit simply to whack-a-mole scammers, they won't.