# I pit jtur88 **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309 "2017-01-04T14:39:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn) #### Post date: [January 4, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309/2 "2017-01-04T14:47:28Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=806571)’s one, in which he somehow tried to defend the people running a call center in India that defrauded Americans by pretending to be from the IRS and threatening them with arrest and prosecution. > [@Major IRS scam phone call center busted in Mumbai](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-irs-scam-phone-call-center-busted-in-mumbai/767798/34): > > > [@Major IRS scam phone call center busted in Mumbai](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-irs-scam-phone-call-center-busted-in-mumbai/767798/32): > > > > I saw one article that said that they were making about $90,000 to $170,000 per day. Another article said “an estimated $36.5 million was extorted from U.S. residents.” > > That a dime per capita. Boo-hoo. Even if we could prosecute them (we can’t, no jurisdiction) it would cost $36 million to even make a dent in their business. Sham-wow alone might extort more than $36 million from US residents. American banks extort more than that from Americans iwith exorbitant fees, which go unchallenged and are blown off with a shrug. Walmort makes more tha $36 millilon just by rounding prices up to the next 88 cents. > > American airlines all charge $200, just to change the date on your plane ticket – $400 if it’s international. Now who’s ripping us off? (British Airways charges nothing for that, and Emirates, Air France and Turkish only a small fraction of it.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-jtur88/776309)._