From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   > You can pull the plug on any place and the scammers will move.   
   > India had a lot of scam centers a few years ago but times have   
   > changed.   
      
   I'm skeptical.  India is unique in that it has a billion desperately   
   poor people who can speak (sort of) English.  So few Americans are   
   gullible enough to fall for those scams that they must spend weeks of   
   futile calls for every one person who is stupid enough to fall for it.   
   So the scammers must be making just pennies per day.  (Or their masters   
   are, if the scammers are in fact slaves, which I strongly doubt.)   
      
   Also, I recognize the accent.  It's utterly unlike anything else.  And   
   it's become so emblematic of scamming that I have found it impossible   
   to believe anything anyone says in that accent.  Not even if it's   
   a YouTube math lecture complete with ironclad proofs.   
      
   I never used to be prejudiced, and logically I know there must be some   
   honest citizens of India, but given that every one of the last several   
   hundred times I've heard that accent, it was spoken by someone trying   
   to scam me, ....   
      
   If I start hearing scammers with a different accent, I'll notice   
   immediately.  It would be as weird as hearing Russians speaking   
   Italian, like in the the unforgettable 1942 Italian production   
   of Ayn Rand's _We the Living_.   
      
   I expect that India will keep scamming until inflation causes the   
   value of the dollar to equal the value of the rupee.  I doubt that   
   will happen until the next administration.   
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