I read an article a while back where there are about 2,000 people calling from India every day 10 hours a day and they have been able to scam about $10 million from the US. Only need 1 sucker every 100,000.
Millions of Americans have fallen for a ruse claiming they owe back taxes and must pay immediately. On the other side of the globe, one dogged inspector finally delivered justice.
narratively.com
wrong, scammed $250 million.
The offenders, the officers were told, were English-speaking Indians who worked in a sprawling network of bogus call centers in western India. They called American citizens, pretending to be officials of the Internal Revenue Service, and demanded immediate payment of tax arrears, threatening imprisonment and deportation. Thousands of Americans had been cheated in the nine months of the network’s operation, collectively swindled out of close to $250 million.