question: Why are most phone scammers Indian or from around that neck of the woods?
comment: India was under British control, so India speaks a lot of English. Also anyone can learn tech skills for relatively cheap so many have those skills. Finally it's cheaper for companies to hire because there is a lot of cheap labor
passages: Telephone numbers used by scammers tend to come from burner phones. In Ivory Coast a scammer may purchase an inexpensive mobile phone and a pre-paid SIM card without submitting any identifying information. If the scammers believe they are being traced, they discard their mobile phones and purchase new ones.
   BULLET::::- Shehzad Nadeem, of the Sociology Department at Lehman College, City University of New York, reports that Indian call-centre employees, to confirm to expectations of the US consumers who they support long-distance, are expected to imitate the Western employees they have replaced in terms of the use of US vernacular, even temporarily adopting an Anglo name during the call. While this is true, Nadeem claims further that this temporary switch to an American-like identity inflicts psychological distress, and has led to the adoption of Western-style-consumer lifestyles by the employees, who earn far more than their compatriots.
   BULLET::::- 1989: Rohit Jagessar, an Indo-Guyanese founded RBC Radio, the first Asian Indian radio station in the US and India's first Satellite radio.
  
  BULLET::::- 1994: Rajat Gupta elected managing director of McKinsey & Company, the first Indian-born CEO of a multinational company.
  
  BULLET::::- 1994: Guitarist Kim Thayil, of Indian origin, wins Grammy award for his Indian inspired guitarwork on the album Superunknown by his band Soundgarden.
   Indian call centres have been the focus of several documentary films, the 2004 film "Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: The Other Side of Outsourcing", the 2005 films "John and Jane", "Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night", and "1-800-India: Importing a White-Collar Economy", and the 2006 film "Bombay Calling", among others. An Indian call centre is also the subject of the 2006 film "Outsourced" and a key location in the 2008 film, "Slumdog Millionaire". 
   Adnan Chilwan, Group CEO of Dubai Islamic Bank, one of the most respected banking professionals in UAE, and Kamal Puri, Founder President of Skyline University, an influencer in the UAE Education Ecosystem, are also some of the few well known Indians in the UAE.
   The inflow of major Indian investments in Indonesia starting in the late 1970s drew a fresh wave of Indian investors and managers to this country. This group of entrepreneurs and business professionals has further expanded over the past two decades and now includes engineers, consultants, chartered accountants, bankers and other professionals.
  
  The Indian community is very well regarded in Indonesia, is generally prosperous, and includes individuals holding senior positions in local and multinational companies.
   BULLET::::- Prith Banerjee, managing director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture
  
  BULLET::::- Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia
  
  BULLET::::- Rajiv Gupta, CEO of SkyHigh Networks, former general manager of Hewlett Packard
  
  BULLET::::- Ranji H. Nagaswami, chief investment officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
  
  BULLET::::- Rono Dutta, former president of United Airlines; chairman of Air Sahara
  
  BULLET::::- Sachin Lawande, president and CEO of Visteon
  
  BULLET::::- Sanjay Jha, CEO of Global Foundries and former CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices
  
  BULLET::::- Sashi Reddi, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, a technologist and a philanthropist
  
  BULLET::::- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
   Most pharma companies operating in India, even the multinationals, employ Indians almost exclusively from the lowest ranks to high level management. Homegrown pharmaceuticals, like many other businesses in India, are often a mix of public and private enterprise.
   BULLET::::- Ben Rappaport as Todd Dempsy, a Kansas City native who is transferred to India to run the call center for Mid American Novelties. He does not understand Indian culture and is constantly offending workers unintentionally. He eventually becomes more aware of Indian culture. He is currently employed as executive manager.
   BULLET::::- Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems
  
  BULLET::::- Sonny Mehta, Chairman/Editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf
  
  BULLET::::- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc.
  
  BULLET::::- Thomas Kurian, President, Google Cloud, former President of product development at Oracle Corporation
  
  BULLET::::- Victor Menezes, chairman of Clearing House Association; former chairman and CEO of Citibank
  
  BULLET::::- Nikesh Arora, CEO, Palo Alto Networks, former Google executive and CEO, Softbank
  
  BULLET::::- Rasesh Patel,Senior executive vice President Digital Retail and Care of AT&T Communications,LLC
  
  Section::::Business and industry.:Former business executives.
  
  BULLET::::- Anil Kumar, former senior partner and chairman, Asia Center of McKinsey & Company
   Since the early-2000s, significant number of Indians have reached the region, taking up high skill jobs in business and industry. Major Indian corporations maintain solid regional presence there while some are headquartered there.
   Raj's cousin Sanjay (or, as he says his friends know him, "Dave from AT&T Customer Service") works in a call centre and is mentioned in a number of episodes. In one episode, Raj tries to avoid returning to India for his cousin's wedding, as Raj's parents have arranged a date for him.
   Many North American standard TDMA phones showed up in Dubai en route to Pakistan, usually bonded by third parties who kept satellite offices there. The majority of these North American phones were sold on the grey market allegedly laundering money for the Indian mafia. Hundreds of Pakistani immigrants across North America tried to take part in this opportunity and many lost their life savings over fraudulent letters of credit. The average shipment was approximately $30,000 USD of cellphones. 
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- List of mobile phone companies in Pakistan
  
  BULLET::::- Communications in Pakistan
  
  Section::::External links.
  
  BULLET::::- Instaphone website
   Somali asylum seekers in India often face greater challenges than do other immigrant groups in terms of gaining access to medical treatment and education, as well as locating suitable housing accommodations. This is primarily due to a lack of familiarity with both Hindi and English, which makes it difficult to find adequate jobs. As many are also not issued resident permits by the government, employers are often reluctant to hire the foreigners for fear of attracting the attention of the local police.
   Petty crime, like pickpocketing, theft of valuables from luggage on trains and buses have been reported. Travelers who are not in groups become easy victims of pickpockets and purse snatchers. Purse snatchers work in crowded areas.
  
  Section::::Other crimes.:Confidence tricks.
  
  Many scams are perpetrated against foreign travellers, especially in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Scammers usually target younger foreign tourists and suggest to them that money can be made by privately transporting gems or gold, or by taking delivery abroad of expensive carpets, avoiding customs duties.
   BULLET::::- 2008: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appoints Neel Kashkari as the Interim U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability.
  
  BULLET::::- 2008: Raj Chetty appointed as professor of economics at Harvard University the age of 29, one of the youngest ever to receive tenure of professorship in the Department of Economics at Harvard. He is one of the top  young economists in the world.
  
  BULLET::::- 2008: Sanjay Jha appointed as Co-CEO of Motorola, Inc..
  
  BULLET::::- 2008: Establishment of the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) to document the history of the South Asian American community.
   In a break from the long tradition of older American expatriates coming to India to manage local subsidiaries of American companies, a trend began in the 2000s of younger Americans taking jobs at Indian companies, especially in the information technology sector, often at lower wages than they had previously earned in the U.S. In 2006 there were estimated to be roughly 800 American immigrants working in high-tech companies in India.
  
  Section::::Numbers.
   In 2010, investigative reporter Andrew Marantz from Mother Jones magazine, gained employment selling mobile phone call plans with the Delhi Call Centre in order to investigate Indian perception of Australians following media reports of Indians facing racism in Australia. Marantz's training included a three-week course on Australian culture and "how to act Australian". During the course topic "dissecting the Australian psych", employees were told that Australia was known as "the dumbest continent on Earth" where college was "literally" unknown. Australians were technologically backward with the average person using mobile phones no better than the Nokia 3110 classic, were racist and that the best time to call was Friday nights as all Australians "drink constantly" and would likely be "smashed". In an interview on U.S. radio, Marantz stated he was shocked at the extent of Indian stereotyping of Australians.
   BULLET::::- Shantaram - a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts based on Roberts' own experiences in Mumbai
  
  Section::::Notable people.
  
  BULLET::::- Anne Warner - Australian state politician (born in India)
  
  BULLET::::- Bob Christo - Indian actor
  
  BULLET::::- King Kong - Professional wrestler & actor
  
  BULLET::::- Fearless Nadia - Indian film actress & stunt-woman
  
  BULLET::::- Graham Staines - Australian missionary & physician
  
  BULLET::::- Gregory David Roberts - Australian author, former addict & convicted bank robber
  
  BULLET::::- Harinder Sidhu, she was appointed High Commissioner of Australia to India in 2016, of Punjabi Indian ancestry
  
  BULLET::::- Isha Sharvani - Indian actress & dancer
   There are hundreds of Indian engineers working in Finland. Many of them came to work there to get a quality life and also their salary would be double than what they would get in India even though taxes erode the difference. At Nokia's research facility alone there are nearly 100 Indians working there. Wipro employed some 300 people in Finland while their competitor Tata Consultancy Services employed 600 individuals. Many of the engineers came with their spouses and children and have settled permanently in Finland.
   A joint Duke University – UC Berkeley study revealed that Indian immigrants have founded more engineering and technology companies from 1995 to 2005 than immigrants from the UK, China, Taiwan and Japan combined. The percentage of Silicon Valley startups founded by Indian immigrants has increased from 7% in 1999 to 15.5% in 2006, as reported in the 1999 study by AnnaLee Saxenian and her updated work in 2006 in collaboration with Vivek Wadhawa. Indian Americans are making their way to the top positions of almost every big technology company (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe, Softbank, Cognizant, Sun microsystems, etc.) Many of them came from very humble origins, for example the current google CEO "Sundar Pichai did not have the privilege of watching television or travelling by car during his childhood. Born and raised in a middle class household, Mr. Pichai used to sleep with his brother in the living room of their two-room apartment that barely had any technology. Despite facing these hardships of everyday life in India, Pichai had a gleam in his eyes of sheer ambition and relentless pursuit."
   After the end of British colonial rule in India in 1947, the "colonial third culture" surrounding employment, which featured expatriates in superior roles, natives in subordinate roles, and little informal socialisation between the two, began to be replaced with a "co-ordinate third culture", based around the common social life of Americans working in multinational corporations and their Indian colleagues. Americans who came to India for work slowly assimilated into this culture. Many companies in those days found they had difficulty retaining American employees with children; they found educational facilities at the high school level to be inadequate.
   BULLET::::- Samir Arora, former CEO of Mode Media
  
  BULLET::::- Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates International
  
  BULLET::::- Umang Gupta, former CEO of Keynote Systems, Inc.
  
  BULLET::::- Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup
  
  BULLET::::- Vivek Ranadivé, former CEO of TIBCO Software
  
  BULLET::::- Vyomesh Joshi, former executive vice president of Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
  
  Section::::Business and industry.:Businesspersons and entrepreneurs.
  
  BULLET::::- Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
  
  BULLET::::- Manoj Bhargava, founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC; the company is known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink
   BULLET::::- Arun Sarin, former president of Vodafone Group plc
  
  BULLET::::- Bobby Mehta, former CEO and vice chairman of HSBC North America and former CEO of Transunion Company
  
  BULLET::::- Deven Sharma, former president of Standard & Poor's
  
  BULLET::::- Jay Sidhu, former chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
  
  BULLET::::- Kanwal Rekhi, former EVP and CTO of Novell
  
  BULLET::::- Lakshmi Narayanan, vice chairman and former CEO of Cognizant Corporation
  
  BULLET::::- Rajat Gupta, former managing director of McKinsey & Company
  
  BULLET::::- Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO and chairman of US Airways Group
  
  BULLET::::- Ramani Ayer, former chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group
   Section::::Media portrayals.
  
  Indian call centres have been the focus of several documentary films, the 2004 film "Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: The Other Side of Outsourcing", the 2005 films "John and Jane", "Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night", and "1-800-India: Importing a White-Collar Economy", and the 2006 film "Bombay Calling", among others. An Indian call centre is also the subject of the 2006 film "Outsourced" and a key location in the 2008 film, "Slumdog Millionaire". The 2014 BBC fly on the wall documentary series "The Call Centre" gave an often distorted although humorous view of life in a Welsh call centre.
  