• n2burns@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Scams exist everywhere, but India literally has billions of people running call centers dedicated to shamelessly scamming elderly English speakers out of their money.

    India literally does not have billions of people, so this statement is literally impossible.

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      1 year ago

      Sorry, India population is 1.4 billion. For some reason I was thinking closer to 4 billion. My bad.

      So let’s adjust it to “hundreds of millions.”

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        1 year ago

        Still not quite sure if I’d guess >200 million (minimum for “hundreds of millions”) people in India work in scam call centres. That would be 14% of their total population, or 37% of their working population. I’d definitely give you millions, maybe tens of millions if research supports it.

        It’s a problem on a massive scale, no need to be hyperbolic.