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When they hear about telecom fraud, the first reaction of Chinese people is northern Myanmar.
But in fact, there are also a large number of telecommunications fraud cases in the United States, and the amount is huge and difficult to recover.
It's just that the main source of this phenomenon is in India - "Myanmar", which belongs to the United States.
What's going on?
India scams "on the rise"
In the public's impression, India has always been an underdeveloped country, with a large gap between the rich and the poor within the country, strict hierarchies, and the people at the bottom living in poverty.
However, there are still a large number of people in India, who are seen by outsiders as simple and have endless money to spend.
This is the famous scammer in India.
They use telephone, Internet and other channels to find fraud targets, steal money, and obtain huge profits.
The main target of India's fraud is United States.
In their eyes, United States have a lot of liquidity and savings in their hands, and each person who cheats also gets a lot of benefits.
According to the United States intelligence organization FBI, a record of scams in United States citizens in 2022 has been released.
In 2022, United States citizens have lost more than $10 billion to fraudulent calls from illegal call centers in India.
In fact, the cause of the current deception situation of the United States is also driven by their historical legacy.
In the eighties of the twentieth century, United States industry developed rapidly, the economic level rose rapidly, the overall strength of the country continued to improve, and most of the labor force was transformed into technical talents.
As a result, labor costs in the United States have risen, and some simple and repetitive jobs also require high labor costs.
In order to make more profits and reduce labor costs, the United States began to transfer its own industries abroad.
India because of the abundant labor force and low labor costs, it has attracted the attention of United States.
In addition, because India was once a colony of the United Kingdom, there are many people who have mastered English, and they also have an understanding of European and American cultures, which can reflect the needs of customers.
In this way, the United States transferred a large number of low- and medium-end industries to India.
A large number of Indians have come to work in the outsourcing studios of United States companies, providing services to United States tax authorities, debt companies, credit card departments, insurance companies, and other businesses.
In order to facilitate communication, the United States has funded the establishment of a number of call centers in India and hired special service personnel to be responsible for calling, which has gradually familiarized Indians with the methods and skills of communication with United States.
At the same time, India is also absorbing the experience and technology of United States, and the outsourcing business India involved in is constantly escalating, from telephone calls, to front desk work, and gradually upgraded to engineering development, and India people have also mastered more development cores.
In the process, a large amount of customer data was kept by the India company, which became one of the important resources for future phone scams.
But after 2010, customer service was moved to the Philippines, and India people lost jobs and income levels.
And the jobs that India society can provide cannot support the employment of most people in India, so some Indians have embarked on the road of fraud.
Among them, it is natural to have cooperated with India for a long time and have a deep understanding of United States.
United States have suffered greatly
When the United States established a call center in India, in order to reduce the influence of India's accent and better serve customers, it adopted a "training and onboarding" approach to correct their accent and grammar habits.
This move also facilitated the deception of United States by India groups.
Because of Indian people's understanding of United States life, cultural customs and social habits, fraud groups have specially studied fraud methods against United States.
The first is a tax scam.
Because the United States strictly manages the tax payment of United States nationals, once tax evasion and tax evasion will face serious problems.
Because for the general public, the tax bureau has its own armed organization, equipped with complete basic weapons and equipment, once a tax problem is detected, the account can be directly frozen, and there is no need to even go through the banking process.
Based on this, India groups will disguise themselves as United States IRS staff, call United States citizens, claim that they have not paid taxes in full, and deceive victims into trusting them through fake tax bills and fund flows, so that they can transfer money to designated accounts and steal money.
The second is a disguised hack.
United States when India the layout of the industry, the computer industry in India also developed rapidly, cultivating a group of computer engineers, who then taught the technology to others, and finally made computer technology have a certain popularity.
Fraudsters will use crawler technology to steal data, widely deliver virus links to the computers of United States people, and then disguise themselves as computer network maintenance personnel, informing victims that their financial accounts will be at risk of leakage, and they will transfer all the money in them, thereby inducing victims to transfer all funds to the fraudsters' accounts.
The majority of people who are deceived by this scam are the elderly, and the number of people is on the rise.
Because the elderly are not vigilant and unfamiliar with these operating procedures, it is easy to be brainwashed by scammers, accept the scammers' statements, and transfer deposits according to their instructions.
According to the FBI, in 2022 United States more than $3 billion was defrauded of the elderly alone.
Since the rampant fraud in India in 2016, United States citizens have lost more than 27.6 billion US dollars due to online fraud, equivalent to 197 billion yuan in RMB.
India scammers are so blatant and have caused huge monetary losses to United States citizens, how can the United States solve this problem?
How to solve the problem of scams
In fact, the United States has not tried to catch fraud gangs.
However, this kind of online fraud uses a fake number, which is generally a one-time use, and a person will change the number after the fraud, which is difficult to track.
On the other hand, most of the remittance methods used by fraud gangs are circulated abroad, transferred through layers of transfers, and finally remitted into the accounts of criminal gangs, which makes it difficult for the police to trace the flow of funds, and it is difficult to determine the identity of criminals.
When it finally tracked down to India, the United States pressured the India government to arrest fraud gangs, and even set up a special online fraud arrest department.
However, fraud is rife in India, and locals have not yet solved the problem of fraud, so how can they have the energy to investigate the United States?
However, the reason why there are so many fraud gangs in India is that the employment situation in India is severe, the local people are difficult to find employment, and they are unable to support basic life, and the low cost of fraud, high profits, and fast arrival attract many Indian people.
Therefore, in order to fundamentally alleviate and solve the problem of fraud, India needs to stimulate social and economic vitality, create employment opportunities, and increase anti-fraud propaganda.
However, from the perspective of India society now, India's anti-fraud road has a long way to go.
Resources
The Paper "How Can an India Village Scam United States of So Much Money?" The "Routine" of Online Dating Scams Revealed》
Time Weekly "Defrauding United States 70 billion a year, India's "wire fraud empire" does this"