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by Scoundreller 779 days ago
About 7-8 years ago in France you’d get regular phone calls from actual humans running the same scam about a DHL or whatever packaging requiring duties to be paid. Plus the same SMS scams.

Americans are lucky in they usually don’t have to buy from abroad and when they do, rarely is tax/duty payment required from the recipient (unlike many other parts of the world).
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FinnKuhn 779 days ago
In Germany we get those phishing SMS too, but I think the US is probably worse off, as they get way more phishing calls (which I think are more effective) as scammers in Nigeria or India usually don't speak German or French...
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Scoundreller 778 days ago
Plenty of low-income Francophones in the world.
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