From: kludge@panix.com
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>Joy Beeson wrote:
>> The people who do the actual calling are slaves.
>
>What is your evidence for this claim? In what nation are these slaves
>being held? And what nationality are the slave? In my experience,
>they nearly all have Indian accents. Does India have slavery? Or
>are neighboring countries kidnapping and enslaving India's citizens?
She's referring to the scam call operations in the Golden Triangle. Most
of those calls go to China but an awful lot of them do come to the US.
Where they are held might be Burma but it's a special economic zone that
is under the control of Chinese nationals not associated with the Chinese
government.
Most of the folks being held captive are Chinese nationals but there are
plenty of other people from around Asia including English-speakers from
India, Pakistan, Thailand and the Phillipines. They are offered large
sums of money to come work in the Triangle but when they get there they
discover it's not what they had expected.
Wang Xing, a famous actor in China, was even kidnapped by one of these
operations, and had to be retrieved by the Chinese government,
>I would advocate "pulling the plug" on India. If they won't enforce
>laws against making overseas scam calls, it should be made impossible
>for them to make overseas calls at all. Let them scam each other.
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. Now
it's the Golden Triangle. Thailand is cracking down and shutting off
internet connectivity out there, so expect the spam operations will be
somewhere else soon.
--scott
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