#Indian scammers

[munaeem]

The Rise of Indian Scammers: How They Deceive American Citizens

Understanding the $10 Billion-a-Year Fraud Operation A sinister and highly profitable scam has emerged from India in recent years. It targets unsuspecting American citizens. This scam is raking in an astonishing $10 billion annually. This operation exploits the trust built by legitimate tech support and customer service call centers. It turns this trust into a weapon against vulnerable…

[cuntsource]

Scam Artist

[strappingyounggoddess]

Scammers love me (Blur edition)...and I love wasting their time. 💓

[wannursyafiqah74]

Hey, just a heads up, ralphleonard (web archive link in case their blog is deleted) is a scammer that decided to randomly approach me and I thought they were actually a person in need. Nope.

(The post had 1 Like but it's not visible for me. Unblocked them and I still saw nothing.)

They claimed to have "reached their goal" and explained nothing about their intentions. Furthermore, they asked about where I was from first, and I didn't want to specify so I just. Shared what I consensually could.

Blocked them afterwards, so these screenshots I've had is the best I can do, but still.

[tropiyas]

DO NOT REDEEM!

[falseandrealultravival]

Wellington in India

He, Wellington, pacified India (1803) 12 years before winning the final decisive battle against Napoleon (Battle of Waterloo). There were indigenous Marathas and others there, but they were victorious due to skillful tactics and the bravery of the British soldiers.

By the way, Wellington is partly the name of the capital of New Zealand, but there seems to be a place called Wellington in India as well. If you look at #Wellington in the Tumblr tag, you'll see a lot dirty old man who look like Indian saint. Oh, I thought this was just a scammer on Wellington's fame. A descendant of the Marathas?

“The Duke and the Emperor Wellington and Napoleon” by John Strawson

Wellington in India

彼、Wellingtonは、ナポレオンとの最終決戦（ワーテルローの戦い）で完勝する１２年前、インドを平定した（１８０３）。そこには土族のマラータ族などがいたが、巧みな戦術とイギリス兵の勇猛さによって勝ち抜いた。

ところでWellingtonというのは、一つにはニュージーランドの首都の名だが、インドにもWellingtonという地名があるようだ。タンブラーのタグで＃Wellingtonを見ると、何やらインドの聖者らしき汚らしいオッサンがたくさん出てくる。ああ、これは、Wellingtonの名声に乗っかかっているだけの詐欺師だな、と思った。マラータ族の末裔？

 (2023.06.12)

[makymakvrchat]

Indian Call Center - Scammers - Catching Scam Call Center

[bigangrytrev]

Attempted targeted scam of Big Angry Trev

Scammers are constant.  Landline scams, mobile phone scams, text scams, email, game chats, social media, phishing, vishing, whaling – they are everywhere! The ‘Words with Friends’ Scammers I get them daily, usually emails but also all of the above.  Everything from ‘I know what you did’ to ‘We are from the NBN’ to ‘You are owed $650,000,000 by the US treasury department’.  It’s a pain in the…

[vintagegeekculture]

The Hall of Amazing Men: Branscombe Richmond

A new admission to the Hall of Amazing Men, Branscombe Richmond is best known for being an actor where he played Lorenzo Lamas’s friend, the Lando Calrissian-like sharpie Dallas Sixkiller, or as Moki, the smartmouth Hawaiian friend of Magnum, P.I. But behind the camera, as a tough as nails stunt coordinator and stuntman, Branscombe Richmond created and developed nearly all the eccentric and eye catching events in the TV series American Gladiators: Atlasphere (the one where people roll around in giant balls), Powerball (done simply because they needed a sport that could be created cheaply because they ran out of money for development) and all the various ones where musclemen shoot tennis balls at people, and where you have to avoid muscular women by jumping on a bungee cord. I don’t think it would be inaccurate to say that with his development (on a really thin budget, no less) of memorable, eye catching sports and events that, with his stunt training he knew could be done safely enough so that even kinda-sporty housewives from Illinois could do them without injury, Branscombe Richmond created American Gladiators. He turned an idea into a realized, practical show that can be done – I don’t think it is inaccurate at all to call him the uncredited creator of American Gladiators.

In his career as a stuntman, Branscombe Richmond, meanwhile, is another one of those faces that shows up over and over playing evil henchmen, members of motorcycle gangs in rough biker bars the hero brawls with karate (if there’s ever a rough scummy biker bar out there, you can bet Branscomb Richmond is in it), and hordes of nunchaku wielding ninja, to the point where if you are, like me, an 80s-90s action aficionado, his face makes you go “oh, hey…it’s that guy!” Can you really call yourself an action fan if you don’t start identifying “your” evil henchman? His IMDB page is mostly roles that are named “Gunman In Jeep,” "Biker #2," and "Terrifying Clown."  

If there is a Evil Henchman Hall of Fame, Brandscomb is there alongside the great Al Leung. You can spot his face as a henchman in Never Too Young to Die (with John Stamos), Action Jackson, Batman Returns, the Hidden, Iron Eagle III: Aces High (objectively the best one as it had Ms. Olympia Rachel McLish), and Star Trek III, where he was a Klingon henchman to Christopher Lloyd who almost got disintegrated and had to feed his disgusting slimy monster dog-salamander. It's comforting to know the profession of henching is alive and well 300 years in the future.

On television, Brandscomb Richmond was on every single cool show from the 80s: Tales of the Gold Monkey, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Baywatch, and many times attempted to kill the A-Team, especially from motorcycles. Like Chiba, another stuntman-actor, Branscombe Richmond specialized in motorcycle stunts, and he was admitted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2003. He is, to this day, the guest of honor at whatever motorcycle rally your embarrassing hick uncle attends. I have no evidence for this, but I have long suspected that the reason Richmond was hired to be Dallas Sixkiller in Renegade with Lorenzo Lamas was so they could get his unpaid advice on motorcycle stunts (much like how I have always suspected Warner Brothers hired Ben Affleck as Batman as a "backdoor" way to ask him to direct).

He also played the older brother of the Rock in the Scorpion King, which is an interesting choice because despite getting roles as American Indians (and being beloved in the American Indian community, who, as a whole, deeply love characters who are smartmouth, wiseass sharpies/scammers who get one over on everyone), Brandscome Richmond is in fact, like the Rock, of Hawaiian origin. His first major role in television, that of Moki in Magnum PI, was in fact Hawaiian.

Why are there so many Pacific Islanders in stuntman careers, MMA, and professional wrestling? The answer is surprisingly pedestrian. It’s because Pacific Islanders are a sizable ethnic population in Los Angeles, where movies and television are made, so if you need someone in L.A. that are tough as nails and can take a hit, a Samoan or Hawaiian is a good choice.

Happily, Branscombe Richmond is alive and well, mostly retired as a traditionally large Hawaiian family patriarch. He does occasional voice work, as Gibraltar in Apex Legends, a character physically based on him as well. I imagine he is relieved to be working in showbiz and no longer risking brain damage to do it.

[sugarcoatedcherry]

SCAM ALERT⚠️

this is clearly a big, big scam. Not only this, any of his her's/others' posts asking you to pay money for anything is a scam

stop making someone rich by taking advantage of your vulnerability. Void costs you nothing but your own belief. Stop paying someone. As an Indian, I can tell that charging 1k INR for an "experiment" is insane.

Do better y'all. All of his her asks, screenshots of messages are all HIM. some of my moots said that the payment name belongs to a man.

Stay safe out there.

TLDR: trynafindbarbiee (can't tag) is a scammer.

[hobiebrownismygod]

Why Spiderman-India/Pavitr Prabhakar is one of the best examples of Indian representation I've seen in a long time

Mumbattan

Lets talk about Earth-50101, Mumbattan, Pavitr's home dimension. Mumbattan is displayed as a beautiful, colorful dimension with lots of traffic, lots of people, and lots of culture. When we see Gwen, Miles and Pav swinging through Mumbattan, we see people wearing saris, people driving scootys, Indian-style billboards and even temples in the surroundings. This is an extremely accurate depiction of large Indian cities.

Mumbattan on the left, Mumbai on the right

See how similar these look?

Now compare this to how Hollywood's Slumdog Millionaire movie depicts India.

Every single movie depicting India made by Hollywood portrays India as a country full of slums and dirty people. I have never seen Hollywood portray India as the beautiful, culture-filled country it is, and I have never seen one of the many beautiful temples, or the advanced cities represented in western media until now. Slumdog Millionaire is a fantastic movie, but India isn't only made up of slums.

Hollywood tends to romanticize struggle and when depicting India, makes it seem like a very depressing country. Yes, there are slums in India. Yes, there are people struggling in India. But that doesn't mean that India isn't beautiful. It doesn't mean India is behind. Mumbattan is the first depiction of India I've seen that I feel portrays the beauty and culture of India well. It is a fantastic representation.

2. Pavitr's personality

One of the most recent and most popular Indian representation series right now is the show, Never Have I Ever. In my opinion, this show is terrible. The main character, Devi Vishwakumar, is the stereotype of all stereotypes and doesn't accurately portray most Desi girls. She is rude, selfish, and extremely narcissistic. Her entire personality is being Indian and I find that extremely hard to watch. They make fun of her by addressing stereotypes like an excess of body hair, fashion, and even accents but instead of shutting down these stereotypes, they amplified them by making fun of them.

In western media, Indians are either portrayed as IT workers, scammers, grocery store owners, or nerdy, try-hard teenagers. Every show with an Indian teenager in it portrays them as cheap, unhygienic or unattractive which I, as an Indian, find extremely offensive.

Pavitr is portrayed as an optimistic Indian teenager who's smart and strong, without bragging about it, proud of being Indian without making it his whole personality and genuinely funny. He isn't portrayed as some skinny, nerdy guy with glasses. In fact, he's literally shown flexing his muscles, and performing well in class without going overboard about it. He's so full of culture, I can't even begin to explain it because I'll never stop. His suit, his mask, his webs, the way he moves, the way he fights, its all beautiful and I could watch for days on end without getting bored.

We were finally served an attractive, funny Indian character who isn't a walking stereotype, who loves and embraces his culture and just seems like an awesome guy to be around. Seeing him on screen made me feel so proud, of my religion and my culture. I hope Hollywood takes notes on this and continues providing the media with proper Indian representation and strong Indian role models for characters!

This article explains everything I said a little better, because I know my writing style can be confusing sometimes. It really goes into depth on how impactful it is on Indians to see this kind of representation for the first time in western media and how important this is.

He's so pretty <3 I'm so proud that I look like him

Might go even more in-depth eventually, I just really wanted to get this off my chest because I love him so much 😭

[acesw]

Knowing our Arcanists 5: Tennant

Welcome to entry five of my series: "Knowing our Arcanists"! This is a series in which I introduce and tell the stories of our fellow characters in Reverse: 1999. Today we have: Tennant!

My god, its everyone's favorite lesbian and scammer. This woman is partially why I got into Reverse: 1999 in the first place, and she's probably the reason why a good chunk of the fandom started playing during launch. But anyways, lets get started.

Ada Tennant was born in Birmingham, UK on September 8th in the 1920s. She became more active in the 40s as a notable socialite and scammer, using her arcane skill in which she's able to transform anything of lesser value (like coal) into diamonds.

She grew up as part of the House of Tennant, a famous and wealthy arcanist family in the 20s-30s. Her father, Laurence Tennant, was a senior official mineralogist who managed diamond mining, identification, and transportation for British India. For some time, Ada lived in New Delhi, India, to be close with her father.

In 1937, Laurence went missing, accused of stealing a batch of diamonds and replacing them with disguised coal through his arcane skill. Over the course of the investigation, Ada—a teenager at the time—was put under long-term surveillance by the British Indian Army for a year, before she ran away herself and disappeared in 1938.

Recently after her disappearance, there have been reports about arcanum-related thefts where batches of diamonds are being stolen and replaced with charcoal with arcane skills. Its likely that Ada had moved to Paris.

Since then, Ada started going by her family name Tennant, and has become a lot more active as a merchant and scammer. She became the talk of the town, being well-loved by many wealthy women and being an interest of many wealthy men.

It should be noted that its clear that Tennant has a higher romantic interest in women, as she's mainly flirtatious with them. She has a bit of respect for the male clients around her; at the same time, she's a gentlewoman. She knows how to please all the hearts and minds of the women around her, and is not afraid to use such to her advantage.

She attended and hosted many banquets and struck deals with many clients over time. Many left their fortunes with her, and she simply replies with her usual tricks. To successfully lie is an art, and Tennant is good at it.

Tennant is no doubt very charming and a very well-mannered person. She's skilled in her social capabilities and can talk and flirt her way to people's desires. But don't let such make you disregard her humility. She holds value to her "humble" beginnings and her own worth as a person, having a bit less care for luxury when it comes to human connection.

Despite this, she knows luxury when she sees it, and will leave a comment or two about it as she's knowledgeable on the subject. Her knowledge brings her quite far, knowing when to compliment or when to give advice for those who share her sense of style.

She's also a clean person, being considerate of the people around her, and maintains her health and style to be at its best. These won't prevent her for carrying a gun for obvious reasons, but she'll handle it and her clothes with care.

At the same time, you also can't let Tennant's flattery fool you. She's incredibly clever and deceptive, making intricate ways to scam others and leave with no trace. She'll be impressed when one can figure her out, maybe a bit disappointed when her tricks fail.

But overall, her intentions are difficult to predict and read. If she can find that one shares the same skill level as her, she'll also be quite impressed of such capability.

Speaking of which, Tennant is not very easy to manipulate back, as she will do anything to find the very truth she'll want to know. Whether she will sweet-talk into your heart, or break it for you to see the consequences.

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

the whole "all Palestinian blogs are fakes!!" take that's rising lately is making me especially mad because you people really aren't hiding your "teehee, brown people = scammers!!" mentality. the whole "scammer with an Indian accent" stereotype is so disgustingly normalised already, so i guess it isn't so surprising that so many white people are using this situation to victimise themselves by witch-hunting POC. you are not an oppressed little angel swooping in to save your friends from Big Bad Scammers by targeting every donation post you see with these accusations. you are just racist.

[doberbutts]

I really just want to thank you for making your posts. I'm, an Indian trans man and I go through similar experiences (thought not as extreme as yours[yet]) I remember my family being more against me wanting to become a man than the fact that I'm trans. My own mother even outright said I should become non binary instead of a man.

Since I haven't transitioned, most of my awful experiences come from online spaces. I don't even use discord anymore since the moment I mention I'm from India people start making jokes about being a scammer and 'bobs and vageen'.

I remember at the time there was a scam bot floating around where if you scanned a QR code it would start sending the same QR code to all your friends through your account. I remember when everyone in the group started saying I probably had something to do with it and I was eventually kicked out. The owner even reached out with a half assed apology saying 'I just want to take precaution'.

The only way to make yourself safe enough is to stop existing.

Solidarity, my brother. One of my trans guy friends is Desi so I have heard quite similar from them, and one of my trans woman friends is too and she's told me about a lot as well. I feel for y'all. I hope things get better for you.