So a personal-blog-level follow-up to the Phishing blog. · 12:32am May 11th, 2022
As you might remember a short while ago I posted site blog about Phishing, given that some dude was maliciously taking advantage of users here. While that specific thing is under control now, it's important to remember that Phishing and scamming others is a real thing and it can really hurt you and your loved ones.
And I think most of us know that.
However, there was one particular comment that was just the epitome of ignorance and justification of idiots. To paraphrase, it went something along these lines:
"These guys are poor and need to feed their families so it's basically justifiable to trick ignorant westerners who make 100x what they make."
Which is of course bullshit. Justifying what delinquents do with the backing of big companies and the government in India because "they're poor" is an insult not only to the intelligence of anyone with two neurons, but also to every person in India who is not a thief or scammer. These scammers make good money, at the behest of rich people.
But, you know, if you want to take a look at some of them getting their just deserts, take a look at the video below. It's a bit of fun, but also contains some basic info that you might want to warn elderly family about.
Remember, these people show no respect, mercy or empathy to others. And they don't deserve any back. They know what they're doing.
Fun fact: rates of pick pocketing and other forms of petty theft are falling across the nation.
The reason being that people who are genuinely poor and desperate generally develop a sense of class consciousness, and move their targets from other poor people to the rich.
You don't join a scam call center who robs elderly people of pensions to strike a blow against The Man; you run venture capital crypto scams if you wanna strike a blow against the man.
5656604 You draw the ugliest monkey you can possibly imagine, then spill coffee on the drawing, scan it with a hand scanner from the 90s, ported through four different adapters from parallel ports all the way to usb-c with drivers you downloaded from forgotten webpages that haven't been updated for decades, then sell it as a NFT worth millions to some moron that thinks that is worth something.
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I did the math and the research, and if Elon Musk were to buy 7 billion cans of soft drink at retail prices it'd only be ~1% of his net worth.
Yeah, that's right: Elon Musk could literally buy the world a Coke if he wanted to. And let's be honest, that's the sort of publicity stunt he'd pull.
5656611 Okay but what does that even have to do with this?
It's admittedly tangential as all hell, but it sort of vaguely adds to 5656604' point by putting into perspective how much more you can steal if you steal from rich people.
If poverty is an excuse for bad behavior, the richest among us should be the most moral.
How's that working out, anyway?
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Wealth is also an excuse for bad behavior. Because you can use your money to escape the consequences of your actions. And also because the courts decided it. I sorely wish I was making that last bit up.
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Correction: It's a reason, not an excuse.
White-collar, blue-collar, rich, poor, man, woman, I don't care if they're some lowlife from another country or the owner of an American megacorporation: A thief is a thief. The only time stealing is remotely okay* is if they're stealing from other thieves. Because if that's the kind of anarchic, honorless world they're trying to create then that's the world they deserve to live in.
(*still bad)
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Again, I sorely wish that the courts were on your side but unfortunately they're on mine:
Dude practically got off on a warning.
Gotta love how that video is making the rounds.
Also, on the idea that these are "poor people" doing the scams, that's bullshit because the people actually making 100x what they make are not the targets. The targets are the easily duped - elderly people or who otherwise are helpless from being taken advantage of, probably living on social security. They can't afford to lose thousands of dollars.
And most of that money doesn't go to the scammers running the phone lines, they go into the pockets of the people at the top who live lavishly. This isn't the poor stealing from the rich, this is the rich preying on the vulnerable.
Side note, but at a job I was at very briefly and had to use a phone (which was registered to the company) where I also had to put in the SIM card, it hadn't been ten minutes before I got a call from a guy claiming he was representing the "Department of State" and had been trying to reach me on this number for some time. Yes, a number that not only was not registered to me but had just been activated. Sure, "Jake", you were from the government and couldn't even say the proper name of where you claimed to work.