I am always confused how someone will fall for the scammer with such poor knowledge of your native language. If you look at the reports from the scams it is always so obvious that they are scams just by looking at the way sentences are structured or the way they speak.
I would expect that easier targets for such scammers would be people who don’t use English as their primary language. Not someone living in US.
It is weird that such things are not an immediate red flags to people. Then again, I have a better grasp on English language than last 3 US presidents so I guess you have to lower your expectations.
I thinks that this is also a reason that Musk, with his ramblings, didn’t reach such cult following here.
Some portion of legit call centres for banks or telcos (as an example) have an accent, especially when support services are outsourced. Means that many are not deterred by an accent or imperfect email phrasing when approached.
In one case of a friend's mother being scammed: she'd complained to her ISP about an issue with their service. Their actual customer support told her to expect a call back later that day. Then some sort of Microsoft support scam out of India happened to call her an hour or two later...
I would expect that easier targets for such scammers would be people who don’t use English as their primary language. Not someone living in US.
It is weird that such things are not an immediate red flags to people. Then again, I have a better grasp on English language than last 3 US presidents so I guess you have to lower your expectations.
I thinks that this is also a reason that Musk, with his ramblings, didn’t reach such cult following here.