I feel like behaving like this is just kicking down. People doing scam calls are also just people and usually in a financially worse situation than who they are trying to call. Not even that, it is especially often people from the global south that we comparatively rich people from the global north exploit and gain our wealth from. And instead of trying to look at the big picture and seeing who the biggest scammer is (the capitalist system itself), most people just bully the ones that are worse off than them… I get that it feels way much more personal and tragic when a grandma loses all her savings to a small group of scammers. But the damages and losses done by large corporations (that also created the desperate circumstances and the motivation of the scammers in the first place) outweigh these scams billions of times. So please show some decency and treat them like normal people.
The scammers will often try to portray themselves like that, but it’s far from the truth. Very often, the scammers end up getting way, way richer than you and I could ever dream to be. That’s not some Robin Hood like action, that’s theft, plain and simple. If they were going after those big companies and distributing the wealth in their communities, that would be one thing (in fact, the communities around them often hate them as well). But they’re going after the most vulnerable and using the money to drive around in overpriced cars.
So no, I will not treat them like normal people, I will treat them like the organized criminals they are who do not stop harassing me.
I feel like behaving like this is just kicking down. People doing scam calls are also just people and usually in a financially worse situation than who they are trying to call. Not even that, it is especially often people from the global south that we comparatively rich people from the global north exploit and gain our wealth from. And instead of trying to look at the big picture and seeing who the biggest scammer is (the capitalist system itself), most people just bully the ones that are worse off than them… I get that it feels way much more personal and tragic when a grandma loses all her savings to a small group of scammers. But the damages and losses done by large corporations (that also created the desperate circumstances and the motivation of the scammers in the first place) outweigh these scams billions of times. So please show some decency and treat them like normal people.
The scammers will often try to portray themselves like that, but it’s far from the truth. Very often, the scammers end up getting way, way richer than you and I could ever dream to be. That’s not some Robin Hood like action, that’s theft, plain and simple. If they were going after those big companies and distributing the wealth in their communities, that would be one thing (in fact, the communities around them often hate them as well). But they’re going after the most vulnerable and using the money to drive around in overpriced cars.
So no, I will not treat them like normal people, I will treat them like the organized criminals they are who do not stop harassing me.