If US government cared, they could have easily stopped it.
They can sanction the country if call centers do not stop, put tarrifs on them or simply just humiliate the country at world stage (UN) and within 24 hrs 90% of call centres will automatically stop.
A country like India which has hundreds of these call centres if threatened with sanctions, tarrifs, humiliation will quickly quickly stop them.
I don't think, it is only the "other countries". There must be adequate people and a solid base in US to supply a lot of intricate details(which needs some legwork and is not plainly available on social media) and legal knowledge/loopholes/possibilities to support the people in other countries pulling the scams. I mean, there must be some cooperation from team locally to pull off these scams. You can't just have someone sitting far off at another continent and chat up ideas in convincing manner.
> For Mr. Heitin, it began in September, when he was unable to log into his 401(k) retirement account. When he tried again several days later, he got in, but the screen quickly changed and instructed him to call the 401(k) provider’s fraud department.
I wonder what triggered this. His computer was hacked? A phishing email leading him to the wrong site (but why the delay?)
A lot of people will type in “Fidelity” into Google or the search engine of their choice to get a login page. If you can get a link ranked high enough, people click. If you click once, you’re likely to be shown it again and it will be purple.
"Mr. Smith came up with another idea: Roll the I.R.A. over to a different institution. That worked.
Mr. Heitin now had $834,000 in the new I.R.A., which he emptied in under two weeks, with no questions asked by the new provider, and moved the money into bank accounts."
bitsaboutmoney wrote an article about this issue recently. I had no idea there was so little verification in these types of cases.
But the story feels a bit off, I mean investigator named "Charles Hunt" and then "Hayden Smith" immediately feels like made up names. If I called my bank and they told me about investigations, my first instinct is to visit a local branch the next day and talk to an actual person sitting at an actual desk inside the actual branch and get some info about what was happening.
That being said, these scams are designed in such manner that, the callers you are talking to are immensely convincing and build a sense of urgency. One trick I learned during security training at my workplace is, if someone calls and claims to be someone specific, I should tell them that I will call them back or visit them in-person to discuss the matter next day if possible. This approach alone saved me countless hours and pissed off a lot of scammers calling me up at random weeks claiming that my name came up in a crime ring police and europol is investigating and they need my personal info.
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I’d like to see a scams division of the FBI. Unfortunately they don’t get out of bed for less than murder or a million dollars.
I would love it just as much as you for this to stop but I don't think the FBI can do much.
They can sanction the country if call centers do not stop, put tarrifs on them or simply just humiliate the country at world stage (UN) and within 24 hrs 90% of call centres will automatically stop.
A country like India which has hundreds of these call centres if threatened with sanctions, tarrifs, humiliation will quickly quickly stop them.
I don't think, it is only the "other countries". There must be adequate people and a solid base in US to supply a lot of intricate details(which needs some legwork and is not plainly available on social media) and legal knowledge/loopholes/possibilities to support the people in other countries pulling the scams. I mean, there must be some cooperation from team locally to pull off these scams. You can't just have someone sitting far off at another continent and chat up ideas in convincing manner.
We have AI assistants intercept and screen all email/phone calls for office use, be nice if there was a personal version.
I wonder what triggered this. His computer was hacked? A phishing email leading him to the wrong site (but why the delay?)
bitsaboutmoney wrote an article about this issue recently. I had no idea there was so little verification in these types of cases.
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-acats-transfers-w...
But the story feels a bit off, I mean investigator named "Charles Hunt" and then "Hayden Smith" immediately feels like made up names. If I called my bank and they told me about investigations, my first instinct is to visit a local branch the next day and talk to an actual person sitting at an actual desk inside the actual branch and get some info about what was happening.
That being said, these scams are designed in such manner that, the callers you are talking to are immensely convincing and build a sense of urgency. One trick I learned during security training at my workplace is, if someone calls and claims to be someone specific, I should tell them that I will call them back or visit them in-person to discuss the matter next day if possible. This approach alone saved me countless hours and pissed off a lot of scammers calling me up at random weeks claiming that my name came up in a crime ring police and europol is investigating and they need my personal info.