Call Centre Workers in India are paid low compared to UK/US call centre workers in pound or dollar terms. But when it comes to purchasing power parity the pays are almost equivalent.
For example if a worker in the west gets $6 an hour, and a worker in India gets $1 an hour, it does sound that the Indian worker is getting a very low pay. But $1 in India is about 43 rupees! That's a decent sum in India - and even the British Banking Union - Unify half heartedly accepts that point.
So the incentive to cheat because of low pay - $6 in the west or $1 in India will be similar.:-)
Some latest updates from India.
The alleged scamster - Karan Bahree is not a "call centre worker". Nor is he a 'computer expert' or a 'web analyst'.
He is working on probabtion for the past three months in a company which mainly does web development. He is a junior staff member and is a content writer! Nothing to do with either banking data or call centre.
The company where he works, which came into unwanted lime light because of the media hype, today said that it does not deal with financial information or bank related data. It also has no British Bank as clients. It mainly does website designing.
Many of the British Banks alleged to have been victims of the fraud have denied that they have call centres in India.
Mr Bahree has sent in a written statement to the company saying that he had received the CD from another person named Sameer and handed it to Oliver (Sun's reporter posing as a businessman) and that he was unaware of what was in the CD. Mr Bahree sounds most unconvincing in his BBC interview.
The general reaction in India:
Most people in India believe that when it comes to similar problems in the west [frauds aren't that uncommon in the west] issues like these become "individual" cases. But when it comes to developing nations like India, a whole country is branded, flogged and criticized for the fault of an individual.
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Call Centre Workers in India are paid low compared to UK/US call centre workers in pound or dollar terms. But when it comes to purchasing power parity the pays are almost equivalent. For example if a worker in the west gets $6 an hour, and a worker in India gets $1 an hour, it does sound that the Indian worker is getting a very low pay. But $1 in India is about 43 rupees! That's a decent sum in India - and even the British Banking Union - Unify half heartedly accepts that point. So the incentive to cheat because of low pay - $6 in the west or $1 in India will be similar. :-)
Some latest updates from India. The alleged scamster - Karan Bahree is not a "call centre worker". Nor is he a 'computer expert' or a 'web analyst'. He is working on probabtion for the past three months in a company which mainly does web development. He is a junior staff member and is a content writer! Nothing to do with either banking data or call centre. The company where he works, which came into unwanted lime light because of the media hype, today said that it does not deal with financial information or bank related data. It also has no British Bank as clients. It mainly does website designing. Many of the British Banks alleged to have been victims of the fraud have denied that they have call centres in India. Mr Bahree has sent in a written statement to the company saying that he had received the CD from another person named Sameer and handed it to Oliver (Sun's reporter posing as a businessman) and that he was unaware of what was in the CD. Mr Bahree sounds most unconvincing in his BBC interview. The general reaction in India: Most people in India believe that when it comes to similar problems in the west [frauds aren't that uncommon in the west] issues like these become "individual" cases. But when it comes to developing nations like India, a whole country is branded, flogged and criticized for the fault of an individual.