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I have gone bold and added a neutrality contested tag. None of the sources cited -- the ARS Technica nor the Guardian articles lead you to say that the scams primarily originate in India. Have orange tagged the section. Ktin ( talk) 17:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
As a result of the country formerly being a territory of the British Empire, as well as a strong presence of English taught as a second language and a vast urban population, India has millions of English speakers who are competing for relatively few jobs. One municipality had 114 jobs and received 19,000 applicants. This high level of unemployment serves as an incentive for tech scamming jobs, which can be lucrative. Many scammers do not realize they are applying for tech support scam jobs, but many often stay and continue to scam people even after they realize what they are doing. When one tech scammer was asked why she continues to work for scammers she replied, "You think because the people who run these call centre are making so much money every day, you might as well make some of it while you are here."which is The Guardian journalist, Snigdha Poonam's subjective opinion and should not be written in WP:WIKIVOICE. And yielding an entire section to the subjective opinion is definitely WP:UNDUE.
Ktin ( talk) 15:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
You should voice feedback here rather than blindly reverting, communication is not optional.-- you did exactly that. Didn't you? Ktin ( talk) 16:41, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
As a result of the country formerly being a territory of the British Empire, as well as a strong presence of English taught as a second language and a vast urban population, India has millions of English speakers who are competing for relatively few jobs. One municipality had 114 jobs and received 19,000 applicants. This high level of unemployment serves as an incentive for tech scamming jobs, which can be lucrative.I do not see how the causality is being established. This should be removed and if you need to add some of the text you should write it as "Per an article in Guardian in 201x, A, B and C are motivations for the scam." Ktin ( talk) 16:59, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
I've decided to remove the NPOV tag as I believe the balancing of coverage between the Guardian and the BBC has resolved the issue of the perception of NPOV and over-reliance on one source to make definitive statements regarding the motivation for scamming (without being synthetic). If it helps make the section seem less othering, I've added India to the list of countries that have fallen victim to these scams with a reliable source to back it up. Thank you. (@ Pahunkat: @ Ktin:). DigitalIceAge ( talk) 17:26, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
@ Ktin: I've been watching this page for a long time. I agree with DigitalIceAge and Pahunkat. Just because a fact is being mentioned in a manner that you personally dislike doesn't mean it is WP:NPOV or that it should be altered; that is just disruptive editing. If reliable sources state a certain fact, it should be menitoned without censorship or editorializing. Wretchskull ( talk) 18:49, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
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Should some pictures of scammers be uploaded? We can have individuals, their names and address listed, we can have pictures of inside the call centers and the address of the call center. We can have information about their life, their arrest, the arresting officer's name, etc. Vmelkon ( talk) 00:49, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
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File:Tech Support Scammer Fake BSOD Virus Popup.png should be removed, no source was provided.
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I have gone bold and added a neutrality contested tag. None of the sources cited -- the ARS Technica nor the Guardian articles lead you to say that the scams primarily originate in India. Have orange tagged the section. Ktin ( talk) 17:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
As a result of the country formerly being a territory of the British Empire, as well as a strong presence of English taught as a second language and a vast urban population, India has millions of English speakers who are competing for relatively few jobs. One municipality had 114 jobs and received 19,000 applicants. This high level of unemployment serves as an incentive for tech scamming jobs, which can be lucrative. Many scammers do not realize they are applying for tech support scam jobs, but many often stay and continue to scam people even after they realize what they are doing. When one tech scammer was asked why she continues to work for scammers she replied, "You think because the people who run these call centre are making so much money every day, you might as well make some of it while you are here."which is The Guardian journalist, Snigdha Poonam's subjective opinion and should not be written in WP:WIKIVOICE. And yielding an entire section to the subjective opinion is definitely WP:UNDUE.
Ktin ( talk) 15:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
You should voice feedback here rather than blindly reverting, communication is not optional.-- you did exactly that. Didn't you? Ktin ( talk) 16:41, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
As a result of the country formerly being a territory of the British Empire, as well as a strong presence of English taught as a second language and a vast urban population, India has millions of English speakers who are competing for relatively few jobs. One municipality had 114 jobs and received 19,000 applicants. This high level of unemployment serves as an incentive for tech scamming jobs, which can be lucrative.I do not see how the causality is being established. This should be removed and if you need to add some of the text you should write it as "Per an article in Guardian in 201x, A, B and C are motivations for the scam." Ktin ( talk) 16:59, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
I've decided to remove the NPOV tag as I believe the balancing of coverage between the Guardian and the BBC has resolved the issue of the perception of NPOV and over-reliance on one source to make definitive statements regarding the motivation for scamming (without being synthetic). If it helps make the section seem less othering, I've added India to the list of countries that have fallen victim to these scams with a reliable source to back it up. Thank you. (@ Pahunkat: @ Ktin:). DigitalIceAge ( talk) 17:26, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
@ Ktin: I've been watching this page for a long time. I agree with DigitalIceAge and Pahunkat. Just because a fact is being mentioned in a manner that you personally dislike doesn't mean it is WP:NPOV or that it should be altered; that is just disruptive editing. If reliable sources state a certain fact, it should be menitoned without censorship or editorializing. Wretchskull ( talk) 18:49, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
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Voxl (
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23:19, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Should some pictures of scammers be uploaded? We can have individuals, their names and address listed, we can have pictures of inside the call centers and the address of the call center. We can have information about their life, their arrest, the arresting officer's name, etc. Vmelkon ( talk) 00:49, 29 August 2023 (UTC)