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Why? The US has the prime responsibility for enforcing US laws. And the US also has plenty of control over the calls, because they have to go through US equipment before reaching the phone of a person residing in the US.

I mean if they even took the small step to ensure that these calls do not spoof the caller ID, and appear as coming from India, this would decrease a lot of the scams.

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Trade deals and sanctions are carrot/stick. And in practice.. folks share intel all the time.

Digital crime has been increasing ~20% YoY for awhile now, matching the rise of e-commerce and weaponization, and is very much a global thing -- this stuff is why we have governments, the NSA exists, etc. (Our startup builds GPU graph viz analytics & automation often used for scalably mapping this kind of stuff, both for fraud+attacks, and the defender side is very much a team sport both at enterprise and gov levels.)

I'm not familiar with Indian law, but I am guessing that fraud is illegal there.

True and USA has a gazillion ways to force other states to crack down on stuff that hurts USA. Fraud is illegal, but in a way, this is hurting USA and bringing money to India (see Mexico and drugs)

As I pointed out a couple of hours before your comment, there's certainly plenty of news articles about the Indian police arresting people for call center scams -- often in cooperation with international authorities -- search [india call center scam arrest]

I'm aware that they do. I'm suggesting that the answer to "why?" India might want to address the issue is because their own legal system also prohibits fraud, and is not simply a concession to foreign interests.

Ah. That meaning of your comment wasn't obvious to me at all.

Agree, also there are quite a number of robocall and voice bot scams that originate within the domestic US. FCC doesn't seem to have an interest in forcing carriers to do anything about this other than develop products in which they charge you for providing some layer of security which should have been there in the first place.

Make the VoIP companies accessory to their crimes?

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