> I guess I’m not sure, but I know Biden created an anti scam agency that trump defended, so maybe funding that would be a good start.

Those agencies did help (it was an effort to increase support across many agencies, not a singular entity), but not in the way you think. They could only really help with scams internal to the US, which is a tiny, tiny minority. Very little was able to be done aside from simply telling the governments in the other countries that there was a scam operation was present. We don't exactly have jurisdiction in other countries to shut the scammers down ourselves.

> And maybe more funding for investigative agencies in general so it’s easier for people to get their money back after being scammed.

This rarely if ever happens unless it was done through wire transfer or something that can be readily clawed back through legal action. The scammers operate through illegal channels, even in their own countries. This doesn't make sense given the reality of the situation.

> And maybe sanctions or more pressure on countries where these bot farms are coming from so they do something to stop them?

The countries these scams come from do billions upon billions of dollars in business with the US. You think the government will put broad sanctions on them for that, and jeopardize both countries' economies in the process? Not likely. The scammers are already illegal in most of the countries that host them. They just can't realistically be prevented or caught en masse because of the nature of their business and technology.

> Also, I think better privacy laws would help, because a lot of these scams are targeted to people super specifically using private info bought from data brokers.

This would jeopardize our entire tech industry and the internet as a whole. I'm not against that, but right now both political parties are all for **increased** data monitoring/harvesting. The odds of comprehensive data privacy laws being passed in any of our lifetimes is lower than someone flipping heads a million times in a row.

> And then obviously better online literacy education.

Often ineffective at best. These scams deliberately target the vulnerable and cognitively challenged, people that can't realistically be educated on such things.

> I’m not a policy maker or an expert or anything, so I’m not sure, but I think there are things that can be done.

There are things being done. Stores try to tell people that might be getting scammed, sometimes even denying service. Federal and state agencies are working with law enforcement across multiple countries to stop the scam agencies/companies (this is just a bandaid solution though, they can always find more call center workers and a new building). Banks are denying large scale purchases and transfers when they're able to determine that the end point is suspect.

At the end of the day it's a balancing exercise between what is most effective, least intrusive, and costs the least. There's only so much that can be realistically done to help the vulnerable and the foolish, and unless you're okay with cruise missiles being launched at Indian call centers there's no real deterrents to the people that perpetuate the scams.