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How is this stereotyping? I can say with 100% confidence that 100% of the malicious scam calls that I get are from India.

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Because of your stupid statement about it being ingrained in the culture. It's more like a combination of unemployment, English know-how, ineffective/overworked police because of underfunding, the existence of this attack vector and a little tech knowledge to exploit it.

The Philippines meets all of these criteria that you enumerated, why don't they pump out scammers like India?

You're on HN and it's supposed to have somewhat better discourse, don't bring the quality of this site down. Next time try googling the population (!), per capita income, rates of English profiency and technical know-how, international phone calling prices, unemployment rates of the two countries... and apply some basic statistics / common sense. There are just some of the factors, there are probably more.

As an Indian I agree with what you said. Hell one top government official recently said Indians are by nature mostly non law-abiding people.

There are innumerable street smart sayings used even by otherwise educated and well paid folks which just amount to "Benefit by hook or crook and fuck this world".

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