Catching Scamming Criminals
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
Boise, Idaho
January 8, 2025 8:32pm CST
I am watching these videos on YouTube of this journalist who is working with the police to get scammers taken down. He has spent 189 days working to bring down a scam call center in India. I love it! I have been scammed. I have also messed with a few who have called me. I have been told a person shouldn't do that but I just cannot resist. They don't get much of a sentence and so they continue to scam people. Sultanate is the name of the scam organization. They use Bitcoin, UPSP packages, gift cards, and wire transfers to get people's money. This guy messes with them until they get mad at him. When they get all the information that they need he explains the whole thing to them and goes and arrests them. In one instance about $867,000 these people made. Almost a million scammed from innocent people.
I think there should be harder sentences so they don't want to do this anymore. And the Indian police authorities are idiotic. They are fed all of this information from the journalists that they have spent nearly a year compiling and they don't seem to take it seriously. The police say they are going to raid the place and arrest them. The next time he hears anything all the people at the center have ripped stuff out of the walls and have left. Can you believe it?
They did finally arrest them. Now they are working on another call center.
Your thoughts.
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@kaylachan (84701)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Jan 25
The problem is, it depends on the punishments they have over there. And proving it. Many counteries including the U.S. have laws against entrapment. Against baiting to get results. And, this is often done in broken English, which an officer might not understand. So, to them, it looks like the supposed victium is baiting or entrapping the scammer. Which is why it can be hard to prove your case.
Secondly, lets say you get athourties to take you seriously. What is the punishment for steeling and fraud? Quite often, it's light and doesn't actually detir people from doing it again.
Here in the us. we have rapists, murders and thieves behind bars. And, that's IF the crime is worth the effort of going to trail in the first place. If you're lucky, a person will get a life sentance. And, while this effectivly prevents from becoming a repeat offender. They are often treated better and have it way better in prison then they do on the outside. Or, you have the other side of the coin, where a prosicuter might dismiss a minor charge and the person is only out court costs. If they're lucky, they'll get supervised probation, but even then, no big deal they're out to re-offend.
Now I can't speak on Indian law pratices, but if their punishments for the crimes aren't strong enough, they'll re-offend because they don't know how to make money in an honest way.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Jan 25
Sounds like you are real close to the facts. It seems those particular authorities are easily swayed to the wrong side. I'm glad they finally raided the place.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Jan 25
@kaylachan .......Yes, and the fact that foreign authorities don't always want to raise any eyebrows.
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@kaylachan (84701)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Jan 25
@celticeagle I know how hard it can be to prove. And, that is where in lies the problem.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
9 Jan 25
Luckily I have never had any dealings with scammers.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Jan 25
I have a couple of times. I realized the one was a scammer about half through the exchange. The other one was one where I got an email and I bugged the guy unmercifully for several days. I had other people helping me and they arrested him. So that felt good. It was where they wanted me to send him money back that he had sent me. I was so mean to him. I may have posted about it. It was a few summers back.
