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Really weird how the governments and tech companies always go after victimless crimes but in the instance of fraudulent tech support where there are real (mostly naive and tech-illiterate) victims they do nothing.


Devil's advocate. Maybe it doesn't seem like a big problem to those you mention since most of people scammed don't report it? But the prevalence should speak for itself, and this cancer feeds itself.

Who takes care of a crime if the perpetrator is in a different country or online?


> Who takes care of a crime if the perpetrator is in a different country or online?

They seem to have solved this issue in cases of copyright infringement of big companies (such as WB/Disney) and child pornography.




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