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On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Simon Waters wrote:Presumably located somewhere with no working legal system, any indication of location?Not really. The guy's English was pretty good but he did have a foreign accent. My guess would be Indian, but I'm terrible at recognising accents. Not sure about the lack of legal system where he is based though. If I paid a handful of people to perform this kind of scam from my livingroom, using some Skype-like technology, and make sure we'd only target people abroad, would it be easy for me to be caught? I spoke to the guy for a few minutes but other than the accent, there was nothing that would point to his location, or that would be useful to any law enforcement agency anywhere in the world. I can't imagine these schemes making them lots of money; esepcially for those who make the calls. So I would guess a country with pretty low basic wages. What worried me about the apparent call centre he was calling from wasn't so much the size of them scam, but the professionalism. I always thought this was for the work-from-home types.
Could be from the UK... Afterall, there was a bloke in Swanse who made what appeared to be a lot of dosh by phoning up companies and saying that their domains were about to be registered by a competitor and did they want to register them with him there and then... I think he was eventually done for fraud though.
What was it about Swansea? http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/legalinfo/scams/
I guess one bloke got the idea then told his mates... Then there's the "Domain Registry of America" .... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq