> “He was laughing, saying I was stupid, his language was unbelievable. And he said if you’d like to go to your app now, you’ll see me take your money,” said Mrs Falconer.
> “Why did he need to do that? He’d already got the money.
Afaik all scammers like to sleep at night, so its popular within the culture to create a narrative in where the victims deserve it. I believe this aspect of mocking the victim is re-enforcing the scammers ability to paint what they’re doing as acceptable.
A more popular example is that people that work in Indian scam centres and have got past the point of realising what they’re doing, tend toward a strong anti-colonial element. It helps them weave a narrative where they are “righting” past “wrongs” and thus conveniently the morality does not apply.
For many working in Indian scam centres, its their first job in the city and they don’t immediately realise the job is fraudulent but for those that don’t realise and get a better job elsewhere the narrative is their comfort.
I dont see why the bank should have to refund the gullible. You never give the bank your PIN/security codes etc. Especially if they called you.
Although admittedly I almost fell victim to a scam in Christmas Eve. Convincing looking email ourpotedly from British Gas, saying that they’d double charged me an inviting me to rectify it. If the website that they linked to wasn’t so appalling I probably would have fallen for it. In hindsight, it got sent to the wrong email address and BG have never had that address.
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I thought this aspect was mildly interesting:
> “He was laughing, saying I was stupid, his language was unbelievable. And he said if you’d like to go to your app now, you’ll see me take your money,” said Mrs Falconer.
> “Why did he need to do that? He’d already got the money.
Afaik all scammers like to sleep at night, so its popular within the culture to create a narrative in where the victims deserve it. I believe this aspect of mocking the victim is re-enforcing the scammers ability to paint what they’re doing as acceptable.
A more popular example is that people that work in Indian scam centres and have got past the point of realising what they’re doing, tend toward a strong anti-colonial element. It helps them weave a narrative where they are “righting” past “wrongs” and thus conveniently the morality does not apply.
For many working in Indian scam centres, its their first job in the city and they don’t immediately realise the job is fraudulent but for those that don’t realise and get a better job elsewhere the narrative is their comfort.
I dont see why the bank should have to refund the gullible. You never give the bank your PIN/security codes etc. Especially if they called you.
Although admittedly I almost fell victim to a scam in Christmas Eve. Convincing looking email ourpotedly from British Gas, saying that they’d double charged me an inviting me to rectify it. If the website that they linked to wasn’t so appalling I probably would have fallen for it. In hindsight, it got sent to the wrong email address and BG have never had that address.