I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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    I ended up on a massive Whatsapp group populated primarily by Indian women after I took a content writing class a few years ago. Made several very good friends. I’ve asked them about the whole Indian scammer thing. One of them said she knows a few, and they do it because they literally don’t have other options for employment. Which makes sense. Rampant, unfettered capitalism forces people to make decisions that go against their conscience for the sake of survival. I feel bad for scammers sometimes, other times I feel less charitable when they’re scamming my dad…

    Whole situation just fucking sucks.

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      If I had the opportunity, I’d still wipe the scammers computer.

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        You absolutely should.

        Scammers escaping poverty by putting a bunch of others into poverty is the very definition of a capitalist and cancer.

        Eat the rich just as you would zap cancer.

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      It’s always an excuse that criminals make - that they don’t have any other options for employment. It’s a shitty excuse when 95% of the country is employed and don’t scam people. It’s easy money for them, nothing more.

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      So you’re buying that explanation that a scammer is escaping poverty by putting a bunch of someone else’s into poverty?

      You just defined Bezos. Lol. You just got double scammed.