Skeptalk: Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? - Livestream

Everyone has experienced the call. “This is Alex from the credit card company. We have a refund we want to give you that has to be deposited directly into your bank account. What is your bank account number?” or words to that effect. Or maybe “Alex” (or “Vicki”, or “Josh”) has bad news: your credit rating will plummet if you don’t send his/her company $200 immediately. What’s your credit card number? Calls like this bilk tens of thousands of people - many of them elderly - out of billions of dollars every year. What happens when a reporter traces one of these calls back to its source - in this case, to an Indian boiler room - with the assistance of a Brit hacker. Who is making all those scam calls, anyway, and what’s their story?

Speaker: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, reporter

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