# Major IRS scam phone call center busted in Mumbai

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**Created:** [October 6, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-irs-scam-phone-call-center-busted-in-mumbai/767798 "2016-10-06T20:33:49Z")
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### Author: ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-irs-scam-phone-call-center-busted-in-mumbai/767798/34 "2016-10-07T12:42:11Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> 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.)

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