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> These operations have to be sponsored by the state at this scale. At the bare minimum they're at least looking the other way.

Its more like 1. They don't care 2. Those who care, don't have time to work on problems of Non-Citizens when the citizens are suffering too

India is a country of almost 1.4 Billion people. That is 1 Europe + 1 North America + around 200 Million people more (figures from google search, may not be accurate)

Indian law enforcement is archaic, understaffed, and riddled with corruption. They prefer to sit on their asses all day and collect paychecks rather than working. For the select few that actually work, they have all the local issues to deal with that comes with a population of that size. They simply do not have the time to work on things that are affecting someone on the other side of the planet.

And tbh I don't blame them for putting citizen's problems over non-citizens. Thats literally what every country would do.



> Indian law enforcement is archaic, understaffed, and riddled with corruption...And tbh I don't blame them for putting citizen's problems over non-citizens. Thats literally what every country would do.

Not to mention consistently and effectively prosecuting people for this sort of crime takes two sides of law enforcement to tango (the perpetrator of the crime may be in India, but the victim is in the United States, as is the local police report they file, the spoofed number and the first part of the telco chain that eventually ends up in a normal looking office in an Indian city). Sometimes a relevant Indian police department may get that information in a form which is useful to both shut down operations and punish the operators, but even if the Indian police were incorruptible, a model of efficiency and particularly hot on white collar crimes committed overseas, I'm not sure their US counterparts are providing so much information that scammers wouldn't feel they could get away with it often enough to try.




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