NYT: India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans

I received countless calls from this particular scam. I never answered.

New York Times:

THANE, India — Betsy Broder, who tracks international fraud at the Federal Trade Commission, was in her office in Washington last summer when she got a call from two Indian teenagers.

Calling from a high-rise building in a suburb of Mumbai, they told her, in tones that were alternately earnest and melodramatic, that they wanted to share the details of a sprawling criminal operation targeting Americans. Ms. Broder, who was no stranger to whistle-blowers, pressed the young men for details.

“He said his name was Adam,” she said, referring to one of the pair. “I said, ‘Your name is not Adam. What does your grandmother call you?’ He said, ‘Babu.’”

Babu was Jayesh Dubey, a skinny 19-year-old with hair gelled into vertical bristles, a little like a chimney brush. He told her that he was working in a seven-story building and that everyone there was engaged in the same activity: impersonating Internal Revenue Service officials and threatening Americans, demanding immediate payment to cover back taxes.

If they reached a person who was sufficiently terrified or gullible — this was known in the business as a “sale” — they would instruct that person to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of iTunes cards to avoid prosecution, they said; the most rattled among them complied. The victim would then send the codes from the iTunes cards to the swindlers, giving them access to the money on the card.

As it happened, the United States government had been tracking this India-based scheme since 2013, a period during which Americans, many of them recent immigrants, have lost $100 million to it.

Though India had no reputation as a large-scale exporter of fraud in the past, it is now seen as a major center for cyberfraud, said Suhel Daud, an F.B.I. agent who serves as assistant legal attaché at the embassy in New Delhi. Several trends have converged to make this happen, he said: a demographic bulge of computer-savvy, young, English-speaking job seekers; a vast call-center culture; super-efficient technology; and what can only be described as ingenuity…

But those who believe that the drop is permanent should consider this: In the weeks after Mr. Poojary and Mr. Dubey left the call center, several lucrative job opportunities were presented to them. Each involved a telephone scheme targeting Americans, they said. There was the Viagra scam, in which the callers offered to sell cut-rate Viagra; there was a low-interest loan scam, in which people were asked to deposit $1,000 as proof of income. There was a tech scam, which warned Americans that their computer had been infected by a virus, and an American Express scam, which involved gathering personal information to break through security barriers on online accounts.

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LAT: The pressure’s on the Federal Reserve to make a diverse pick for Atlanta post

Yeah, I notice that pressure all around me. Almost everyone I know is loudly pushing for the Federal Reserve to make a diverse pick. Diversity on the Federal Reserve is the most important issue of our time. It is time for the Federal Reserve to allot its posts to Gentiles according to their share of the population.

Well, looking at the story, the Gentiles get no love. But if diversity is the issue, then you wouldn’t want Jews occupying a disproportionate number of seats, would you?

How about we make the NFL and the NBA use players according to their race’s share of the general population? How long will we tolerate black supremacy? And what about bus drivers? It seems like more than 90% of bus drivers in American cities are black. Don’t non-blacks know how to drive a bus?

Los Angeles Times:

selection of a regional Federal Reserve bank president normally takes place in relative obscurity, followed only by local business leaders, financial executives and analysts who track monetary policy.

But amid concerns about a lack of diversity at the highest levels of the nation’s central banking system, great attention is being focused on who will be chosen as the next head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

The search is being watched closely by members of Congress and advocacy groups that have complained publicly in recent months that the Fed’s top leadership is nearly all white.

The Atlanta region, which has a large African American population, presents the perfect opportunity to start changing that, they said.

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Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin insists anti-Semitic demonstration in Whitefish will happen, names nonexistent “Jewish center” as location

Blog post:

Neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin says he plans to make good on threats to stage an anti-Semitic armed march through Whitefish next month, despite dismissive comments this week by Richard Spencer, the white nationalist and part-time Whitefish resident who inspired the idea.

Anglin’s insistence comes after Spencer said he doesn’t believe the march will take place, describing Anglin’s scheme as simply a “troll” of Whitefish residents. In an email Thursday, Anglin said Spencer is wrong, and that Anglin plans to apply for a permit that would allow him and a cohort of fellow skinheads to demonstrate in the streets.

“This is not about backing up Richard Spencer,” Anglin wrote of his proposed march, “this is about justice, and making it clear to the Jewish mafia that we will no longer tolerate their criminal gangsterism, their attacks on the families of those they disagree with politically.”

The proposed march was spun out of a recent dispute between Spencer, his mother, and local real estate agent Tanya Gersh, with the Spencers accusing Gersh of a “shake down” aimed at forcing Sherry Spencer to sell a commercial building she owns in Whitefish. Anglin took up the cause, calling for a “trollstorm” against Gersh, who is Jewish, and other Jewish residents of Whitefish. That threat later escalated when Anglin began promoting a “March on Whitefish” for which he would recruit California skinhead groups to carry assault-style rifles through the town.

The situation garnered international attention, prompting Spencer on Wednesday to tell the Daily Interlake and Missoulian newspapers he thought Anglin’s call to arms was just a joke—much as Spencer dismissed his own “Hail Trump” salute at a recent white nationalist conference as ironic play. Spencer did not, however, explicitly call for Anglin to call off the march, saying only that he is powerless to influence the blogger, but has become weary of the spotlight the controversy has put on Whitefish.

“I’m not telling Anglin to do anything,” Spencer now tells the Indy. “I just assumed it was a troll. Can he really bring out people for a march on a ski village in remote Montana?”

…Earlier this month, Anglin and Spencer appeared together on a right-wing podcast. An excerpt reported by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights shows the two men’s difference in approach.
Spencer: “They [Jews] kind of need us in a way… But in a weird way, it’s the people that shall not dwell alone, to borrow a title from Kevin McDonald’s book. They do need us.”

Anglin: “It’s a virus. They’re a human disease” [laughter].

Spencer: “Somewhat inflammatory language, but I understand what you’re saying.”

This week, Spencer told the Daily Interlake that Anglin is “totally wild—that’s not my kind of thing,” while also calling him a “rational” person who wouldn’t engage in physical violence.

Asked Friday morning whether he would call upon Anglin to stand down, Spencer offered this statement: “It’s time to bring this to an end.” He then pointed the Indy to a Youtube video he posted on Friday in which Spencer says that Whitefish residents can end the controversy by renouncing Love Lives Here, and specifically the Jewish rabbis involved.

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I wonder why Amazon.com recommends David Duke’s books to me when I log on to their home page?

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What’s Steve Sailer’s History With The Donald Trump Candidacy?

On November 28, 2000, Steve Sailer laid out the Republican path to presidential victory (used by Donald Trump in 2016) in what has become known as “the Sailer Strategy.”

Donald Trump declared his campaign for president on June 16, 2015.

On that day, Steve Sailer’s blog posts were:

* ¡Jeb 2016!

* Yes, Sir/Ma’am!

* Keila Ravelo: Woman of Color

Sailer does not mention Trump in a blog headline until July 9: “Donald Trump Is Getting Under the Skin of Caitalina Bush

The next headline came a day later: “Claude Monet Is the New Donald Trump”

Further headlines came slowly.

July 15: “One Clinton Denounces Trump; Other Clinton Mum About His Continued Membership at Trump National Golf Club”

July 27: “What Donald Trump Is Up to”

July 31: “Bernie Sanders Ruining “Isolate Trump” Strategy”

August 4: “The Debate on Immigration We Need: Donald Trump v. Carlos Slim”

August 5: “Bill Clinton Encouraged His Golf Buddy Donald Trump in May”

August 6: “Q. What Is Trump’s Appeal? A. ItIS”

August 12: “Sailer in Taki’s Magazine: “Obama, Trump, and Daffy Duck”

August 18: “Scott “Dilbert” Adams on Trump’s Sales Techniques”

August 19: “Sailer in “Taki’s” on Trump’s Immigration Position Paper”

The first Steve Sailer commenter to mention Donald Trump after he announced his run for president was a bloke named “Jefferson” who wrote June 17: “And of course Donald Trump is never boring.”

The next comment was June 20. Poster “Sailer has an interesting life” wrote: “Any comment on The Donald? Far be it for me to comment on the stupid party, but selecting a rich blowhard during a recession doesn’t sound like a winning strategy.”

Maj. Kong responds: “Bush. Clinton. Perot.

Bush. Clinton. Trump.”

The next person to comment appears to be the first Steve Sailer commentator to take Donald Trump seriously as a candidate for president. Nathan Wartooth wrote June 20, 2015 on Sailer’s site:

I liked his speech. He was talking about how the middle class gets raped by trade deals and that he wants to actually enforce immigration laws.

If I vote in the Republican primary, I would probably vote for him. He looks like a God compared to the other candidates. The Republicans can’t manage to get anyone to run that is even half decent.

At least the far left has Bernie Sanders to represent them, we don’t have anyone.

After that, the Donald becomes a prime focus of Steve Sailer’s commentators, and of my own blogging.

On election night, Steve wrote that Trump was “heroic” for his entering the race to become president. Anyone notice a thru-line to Steve’s writings on Trump? Was there a time when he began warming up to Trump? When did Steve start taking Trump seriously? Was there a time when he seemed to think that Trump would win? I’d love to know the light bulb moments when Steve realized that Trump was worth taking seriously, that he would win the Republican nomination, that he would win the presidency.

Could someone please post a three-act play about Steve’s evolving thinking about Trump.

Steve Sailer replies: “By the 4th of July 2015, I was noticing that Trump was putting his businesses on the line over the immigration issue, not backing down when the golf tour, NBC, Univision, and Macy’s were boycotting him. Everybody else in America collapses under that kind of pressure.

Also the Kate Steinle murder of early July 2015 by an often deported illegal alien in San Francisco suggested Trump had a method and was willing to use it to break through the media cordon on immigration.”

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Maybe his relative diffidence is strategic, out of some consideration for the Trump team and the importance of this moment for the American people. Compare Richard Spencer.

It may also be said that Trump was and remains somewhat of a wild card. Although he has surrounded himself with good people on immigration, there is still some uncertainty.

Oddly, Mark Krikorian, one of the leading public figure restrictionists in the country, was very cool on Trump for much of the campaign.

* Steve is a journalist and an analyst. Consider whether it would be unbecoming (in our eyes and others’), as well as self-sabotaging of his credibility, for him to come out as a “supporter” of a candidate.

* I started to really like Trump around the time he released a policy paper on immigration that called for large cuts in legal immigration. The paper sounds like it was written word-for-word by Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller, but at least Trump accepted it. Both Sessions and Miller are now in the Trump administration.

As for Sanders, he’s good on a lot of issues (trade, wage inequality, healthcare, fighting oligarchs, foreign policy, ending wars), but he’s soft on immigration and race. During the beginning of his campaign, he criticized the large scale importation of foreign workers. Unfortunately, he later went silent on the immigration issue, most likely due to pressure from immigrant activists on the left.

* I ended up with Trump after the other candidates blamed him for the threats that cancelled the Chicago Trump rally. That’s kindergarten-level fail.

It was a Holmesian process.

* When did Sailer become enthusiastic about Trump?

Yeah, when was that actually? Never I think, as you suggest. He did spend a lot of words skewering various idiotic forms of anti-Trumpism, but I saw no enthusiasm for Trump (or Cruz, for that matter).

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