[daviddoran]

A family member works in banking phone support and the scams people get caught by are unbelievable. Every week people are convinced by scammers to give their bank cards to a taxi that arrives at their house (supposedly sent by the bank), they transfer 1,000s of euro to foreign bank accounts (supposedly at the request of the bank to safeguard the funds), they lie to the bank (somehow convinced by the scammers), etc.

[Nextgrid]

That's a symptom of law enforcement having dropped the ball for over a decade. There is no way in hell anyone would dare send a taxi "sent by the bank" to pick up scam proceeds in a society with a functioning law enforcement system because the scam victim would be a honeypot most of the time and whoever shows up would be arrested & jailed (and likely rat out the rest of his crew).

[a2128]

From my understanding, the scammers themselves are typically a half/whole continent away, in a jurisdiction that doesn't care too much and is easily bought by money. Meanwhile the people picking up cash are sometimes not even connected to the scam, they can be Uber drivers who were requested to pick up a package, as was the case when a man in Ohio tragically shot someone sent by scammers [0]. Unfortunately the Internet has made it really easy to do things like this without stepping foot in the country

[0] https://apnews.com/article/uber-driver-killed-scam-4998a42b2...

[LeafItAlone]

> because the scam victim would be a honeypot most of the time

The pool of potential victims is the entire population with a bank account, meaning at least the majority of adults. The percentage that would fall of it and agree is certainly not 100%, but it is definitely higher than I personally expected years ago. That still results in a ton of possible victims.

Give such a large pool, how can a police honeypot be the scam victim “most of the time”?

[mrweasel]

What I find surprising about those scams are that people believe that a bank that for two decades have tried to avoid providing ANY in person service or show the slightest interest in you, would suddenly provide that level of service and support.