Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
I built telecommunications systems &#x2F; software for some time. The unfortunate truth here is that telecom carriers absolutely already have everything they need to largely put a stop to it but they knowingly ignore it. It&#x27;s the biggest problem in the US because because of pricing. It&#x27;s expensive to run outbound campaigns in almost any other country, and very cheap in the US (fractions of a penny per minute compared to 5-10c per minute in some EU locations). Scammers need volume to make money.<p>The reason carriers -- from the local exchange carriers and up -- ignore it is because just a single scam operation can mean 10s of thousands of dollars in volume a month, and sometimes more. Since they have to self-report for the most part they&#x27;re not very incentivized to stop it. There are a few easy to implement regulatory &#x2F; technical mechanisms that could nearly axe all of it, but carriers push back hard on those regulations and they never stick.<p>I know from experience dealing with this that it&#x27;s absolutely not ignorance that&#x27;s at play on the regulatory and commercial side. It&#x27;s disgusting, and as fueled with greed and red tape as you&#x27;d fear.