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If we're apologizing for national issues that aren't our fault, I'd like to say sorry for mass-shootings, exploiting poor people and the widening wealth-gap, and (worst of all) obnoxiously loud Americans abroad!

They make it sound like they are only notifying you that you are about to be arrested. They don't ask for payment and fake refuse the first offer if the mark offers. Then, when the madk is very worried they are about to go to jail, it is much easier for them to believe whatever because it's harder to think when you are panicking. So something like "our payment system is down so we cant take payment with cards right now. You need to pay within 30 minutes or I can't reverse it. I guess I can pay out of pocket, but you need to get me the equal amount of gift cards" or some shit like that.

Gullible, scared, lack of critical thinking, blindly following authorities, there are many reasons. It's not only old people, thought.

I'm convinced it's because a shit load of old people have committed, and so far gotten away with, serious crimes at some point.

Random calls from "authority" decades later stun locks their brain in a memory loop.

Many real scams are not this obvious, plus a lot of old people are senile to some degree, which these scammers are exploiting. My grandma was contacted by "her bank" about verifying her identity, and after a few minutes of establishing a backstory they asked her for her debit card info including CVV. It all sounded very legit, and they even "transferred her to another department" with hold music and everything. Luckily, she didn't fall for it.

along with other replies generally you become more gullible/less able to think of alternative explanations as you age, so even some "obvious" scams look legit

It's the amount of money that makes it worth it. If they are successfull the amount is usually something like $10,000-$30,000. If they are only successful once every 2000 calls thats still worth it. Now you would say 2000 calls with 50 people in a call center means they are only successful once every few days and you are totally correct. But you have to put this into consideration with what they are usually paid. If you work in IT for huge companies like Accenture or McKinsey you will earn around 8-10k if you are in upper management and 6-8k if you are a normal worker. That's yearly. So every successful scam for these scam companies pays up to 5 peoples yearly salary

Kitboga's work is just epic. With all the programs he develops, sound effects, other people to help him, etc he uses it's just like a modern day version of a radio hear play.

It isn't just entertainment, it's art.

lol, I literally read the title in his "old woman voice" 😂

Give it a few decades, we’ll all be just as stupid.

Dumb people are the most courageous, no?

People only think theyre smarter because there wasnt social media to show how stupid they really were.

It's pretty easy when they do the same to younger people.

Autistic? No you're not you're just an asshole.

ADHD? No you're not you're just lazy and annoying.

Fuck em. Not my fault they voted against their self interests to the point they can't get medical assistance for their brain rot.

I'm kinda convinced Dell sold my details to Indian scammers. I didn't have my laptop long before I started getting calls from "Dell Apple Microsoft tech support" about the computer sending them virus reports. I'm sure wanting me to let them remote into the machine, or run some other computer-based scam.

They had to have gotten the info from Dell; they knew the model number of the machine.

So I had someone who spoke with a thick accent wanting me to press Ctrl+Alt+R or whatever the run dialog hotkey in Windows is and run some commands. So I did exactly what he wanted me to do. And nothing happened. Because Linux Mint doesn't bind anything to Ctrl+Alt+R by default. Last thing I heard him say was "Listen, you fucking guy..."

I should have wasted more of his time, the parasite.

If you're in Toronto or have a Toronto number they target Mandarin since it's incredibly prevalent in the city. Those are also the only 2 languages I receive as well.