“They don’t ******* withdraw it” - Scam Call Centres in Ukraine

<p>Scam call centres are a blight on the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to have any dealings with them. They come to you with promises of a short cut to wealth, to fix a non-existent issue with your computer, claiming to be from a charity, threatening you with arrest for unpaid taxes.</p><p>There are 70 million of these phone calls worldwide every day and they generate billions of dollars each year. Organized crime is very much a part of this industry from Mexico to India and from the Philippines to Ukraine. </p><p>In this episode we delve into the hundreds, possibly thousands of scam call centres based in Ukraine, where investment scams are mainly targeting Russians.</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><p><a href="https://globalinitiative.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime</a></p><p><a href="https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Port-in-a-storm-Organized-crime-in-Odesa-since-the-Russian-invasion-GI-TOC-September-2023.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PORT IN A STORM: Organized crime in Odesa since the Russian invasion</a></p><p><a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/organized-criminal-economies-ukraine-2022/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New front lines: Organized criminal economies in Ukraine in 2022</a></p><p><a href="https://ocindex.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Organized Crime Index</a></p><p><strong>Additional Reading:...