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Before I clicked on the link, I suspected it would be an Indian. I've dealt with a few such "recruiters" in London as well. Slimy individuals preying on those trying to secure a better future.

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So you assume all such frauds are committed by Indians.

Do you also assume all bank and atm robberies are done by Romanians?

And all credit card skeaming by Russians.

All money laundering by Brits and all brothels by Dutch.

I don't see any point of making such broad generalisation about a particular ethinicity.

It's not that I assume, it's just that it's becoming a common, observable pattern across a variety of industries, from IT staff, to general helpers round the house.

I'm Indian too, by the way, so it pains me to say it, but the stereotype of an Indian committing immigration fraud overseas is establishing itself rather well.

Well there's more than a billion indians, so the bad apples do tend to stand out more, even though statistically there might be just as many slimy <insert other nationality here>.

I think you're missing the point. The sheer volume of people, our cutthroat, materialistic culture, poverty and intrinsic desire of hopefuls to "escape" to a rosier place makes the Indian population perfect for this kind of fraud. And of course, there are plenty of well-off NRI Indians willing to sell them the dream of moving to the west.

Even our pop stars were at it: https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-as...

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