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How come this is happening? Does crime pay??? Why are there so many scammers? And those annoying phone calls with nothing to say to but crap. 95% of my land line calls are from people full of crap. And now my cell phone is getting them!
I think there are three reasons: 1. It's way easier to reach people anonomously. With the internet, smart phones, robocallers, bots, etc, it is easy because for a lot of this you don't even need a person, it is all automated. 2. Global reach. Just because some scammer says they are from New Jersey doesn't mean they are not in Africa, South America or Central Europe. What better targets than in the US? I expect poorly educated people in many other countries think we are all rich, so we are a target rich environment in their minds. 3. Lack of enforcement of laws against this. Even if you just take the scammers and spammers here in the US, I expect the amount of resources spent by all US law enforcement combined to combat these guys proactively and send them to jail is probably miniscule compared to what is spent on counter-terrorism, drug interdiction or even prostitution enforcement. So, it's the wild west for scammers. That's my opinion, at least.