The media have taken it up*. The basic problem is that most scam calls originate from India and the Indian legal system (probably like most nations') is not designed to cope with international wire crime. To prosecute someone in India the victim must register the complaint in India and would need to give evidence in an Indian court. Anyway the Indian police (like any police) have enough to do already without the complications that would be involved in international prosecution. We won't say anything about corruption.You should be in government ...; we need someone to drive through action. We as a country must be losing millions a year in these scams. If the government won't act ... maybe the media will take it up, try and shame HMG into action.
There has been talk of the West financing a special cyber crime force in India, but India might take that as an insult and an infringement of sovreignty. India is not poor as a nation anyway, despite assumptions by many in the West, although they have poverty problems (as does the West). Even with a special force, it would still require India to amend its laws.
What could be done in the West is to stop allowing incoming international calls to be made so cheaply. A professional scam call centre in India with say 20 staff will have a computer continuously ringing perhaps a hundred numbers in the West any one time. If a victim picks up, and does not hang up by the end of the introductory recorded message, the computer will hand the call to a free agent; if none are free at that moment, the computer hangs up, a common occurrence for us, and the computer will start phoning the next number on its list. Apparently these calls, connected or not, cost the scammers very little for reasons I don't understand; I believe they use Skype. If the telecom companies made a significant charge for every incoming international call, say £1, whether answered or not, it would destroy these scammers' business model.
* For example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000fzx2/panorama-spying-on-the-scammers
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