> The Eastern Indian state of West Bengal has a similar complex, where all the international scam-calls targeting English-speaking nations originate.
Yup. But - as much as I love to dunk on India for not doing anything on a federal level to combat the scammers - it's not exclusively India that's got issues with running scam callcenters. The Philippines are a hotspot as well [1], and Turkey is also ramping up [2] although their scammers mostly target Germany [3] as there is a sizable Turkish-origin diaspora here and a lot of Turks speak decent-enough German.
Yup. But - as much as I love to dunk on India for not doing anything on a federal level to combat the scammers - it's not exclusively India that's got issues with running scam callcenters. The Philippines are a hotspot as well [1], and Turkey is also ramping up [2] although their scammers mostly target Germany [3] as there is a sizable Turkish-origin diaspora here and a lot of Turks speak decent-enough German.
[1] https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/afp-partner...
[2] https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/turkiye-to-contain-fra...
[3] https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/istanbul-police-uncover-i...