Tech support scams still?! I don't even understand how this is possible. If Google wanted to they could come up with the tech to bypass the spam/scammers own ghosting system. They must have some kind of invisible Google bot that checks for downloads/scams, right?
Phone providers should also be detecting this with AI. There is no way this should be occurring anymore.
Wouldn't the best solution be ensuring they all end up in an appropriate landfill rather than a river?
It seems people are so against landfills that they're happy to sort their plastic and sent it on an epic journey of fraud where it ends up in a river in India. Meanwhile it could have been buried with their other trash and appropriately managed.