| ▲ | mschuster91 11 hours ago | |
... and one that has quite the merit. A few hours worth of watching Scammer Payback will do that to anyone. The thing is, wide parts of the population are extremely IT illiterate. The governments didn't act to protect them (say, by threatening the host countries of the scammers aka India in the case of the US or Turkey/Bulgaria/Romania in the case of Europe), so private companies had no other choice. And hell even the best of us like Brian Krebs can fall victim to attacks [1]. I'm really out of ideas how we can reconcile the needs of the 99% vs the needs of the 1% without making life hell for the other group. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/security-journalist-brian-kr... | ||
| ▲ | spwa4 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |
... of course, the EU has the power to get the banks to block those money transfers. Hell, central banks have to be involved in those scams (hopefully/probably unaware). But they CAN shut it down, HARD. They're not doing that, at all. > so private companies had no other choice. Because Microsoft has demonstrated how it's done on their platforms? Obviously governments, EU or otherwise, have quite serious tolerance for scams. | ||