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across the world, men are being looted into online chat with a trick into performing sexual acts. not something in the line of all from a village in the philippines. young workers then blackmail their victim, pulling in millions of dollars for their boss. some of the western union branches in the area around where she lived recorded the biggest teachings at any branches in the world for period. one or one east investigate the inner workings of an

international online 6 o. ne of the philippines capital manila is a ramshackle village where he had to meet young man will call mark that. they say someone might meet me, but i'm going to go online and medical anthony handed out to 5. i didn't bother me putting to me, come back up with me. and i mean you got 100 western and then i was coming back and gotten lady getting your money didn't about new fans. now somebody made easy money, not only mark blood for

a criminal syndicate that created a new type of cyber scam known as 6 torsion. here ledges one woman is that the center of the online crime in pile. maria could power delegate put up in some other machine that might have seen one, not one of them may mark or just by change them by me the same way. so we have to make time, i know samples in the states, i'm going to why they mentioned that in big things that are going to bone on bone and then lana lecture among tele, well awesome, you know, go out, listen mclean, them fair. once we're done and dial as the number of victims groups,

so did questions about the scan. i have no idea what what the crime was or how it could possibly work. and so i started looking into a journalist simon perry began investigating the syndicate in 2016. the 1st thing we knew about sex torsion was a case in scotland involving a 17 year old. and i told daniel perry, who apparently received messages through facebook, had some money extorted from him, received some of our 3000 pounds from him before he ran out of money. they then carried on threatening him, threatened to release these video recordings of him and. and i started saying, well, why don't you kill yourself and taunting him even? and the last message you sent it and said, i haven't got any more money by buying. ah,

he then took his own life. ah, ah, the police investigators traced the chat to a criminal gang in the philippines. usually you'll find these crimes mark originating nigeria or some african countries and then get copied overseas the here . this is the 1st anyone ever heard of these crimes being penetration in about 20132014. they suddenly started spring up. this crime didn't exist until maria compress invented the syndicate has reportedly extorted $1900000.00 from bells and victims. huge sums of untraceable money, all of which will be sent to the western union. the kinds some of the western union branches in the area around where she lived recorded the biggest

taking any western union branches in the world for periods in 20142015. that was so much money coming in at this time. parents wasn't always so we'll see. she lived in the slums of manila before moving to north hills village. she then started working in a fit to women's trip and talk to strangers on the internet. let's face it, it's a pretty, pretty grading line of where to find yourself. and i imagine that's where the cynicism about the victims comes in. she's seeing men who are behaving in a very exploitative manner to be working with other people who are eventually exploited. and some studies we don't know when clearly a light bulb went on. she realized how she could turn this to her advantage. it's

an evil stand, but it's a very clever scout at the same time and plays on the track. the people are ready to strike a conversations with the stranger like that about the on top of somebody, but let me know. and jason says he was you the 1st year of high school, when he was recruited into the organization. did i wanted i would be more in a good one. and i will after finding an existing account of a pretty young girl from career or china. jason with then carnage to create his own mother behind me. but i don't mean that only gardner. so i don't what was would it's, i mean, not a stop in the, in the cities like, you know, you're probably in the mean mean,

mean with me paul. then it's time to little for potential victims. without it, i know engineering lives, even militia engineer lives in hong kong element. and i mean, not huge in my, in my mind going on long. i mean, you know me, my stuff, i mean was and they don't go where they don't. i know you, you mean i did the saying they didn't get up and i think we did. i don't use that in the, the nation. she puppies. the way 6 social works, if somebody will send you a friend request on facebook, somebody before check. but my dad and i know my god about him. i got done by my god had to be more high. oh, you know,

i know you're really got a someone who is all going on going on. so it was being going on and i know you mean no going on that was about not going on. got on the big brands going on going on, but i don't want to shaw your fellow sick scanner. mach susie worked alongside teeth and no matter no more than about 17 years old. 171819 w b. and then that's how we were state charters. we'll get bonuses next to the awards. she showered with gifts. i filed samson phones save 30 scanners work 6 ships out of a secluded house in the mountains. outside the filipino village of north hills.

maria perez had another house. she large property in the center of the village was like an entertainment center for the mostly young people who would work to her. and there was always crimes of kids that gathering around them. and of course i was a demographic that would be working for her for being trying to work to her. oh, the main source of income for the local villages used to be baking and selling te, tell me some. and i

like about us being not battle and a scanner is saying no one wants to report to paris to place our show . you show you one on one i'm on. i'm not home mission meeting on about something about you when i'm your mom and show you or not . but why don't people cherish to talk about what's going on. not only terrified, but probably interested as well because everybody has son or daughter or brother or sister. somehow involved in and one trying to scan or the other with money you can, you can literally buy people. that's technically what she was doing.

i the scanners pray or men from all over the world. this victim spoke to us on the condition of anonymity. i got a random facebook request one night female. at 1st i was resistant because i didn't know this person at all. me at the time, anything, nothing of it, like i said. so we started chatting a 2nd. we got into the web cam. this person was already removing the whole thing. i did not anticipate this kind of conversation prior to that one and they started moving their holding started doing some more things always and stuff like that.

me and started asking me to really my whole thing. i. i was resistant, a lot of time for me about 15 minutes. i didn't really know this person. i didn't want to do that. i'm not really into that whole thing either. you know what i mean? but eventually i did me my private area. ah, this person proceeded to start the video. the scream, when once that happened, i kind of realized something was going on in the line all night. marks is deduction,

is the key to extortion scanners take videos from porn site and play them for their victims pretending to be the woman in the video. then they lose the men they chatting to to performing similar acts. not going to be a whole, but the whole guiding up, we're going to get him on top of us. so when someone okay, jason says the scam is control the videos to make it look as realistic as possible . but i think i've been by your name. if you already let me know, maybe your hands, maybe your got it on me needs to mean it's going to be charged. got done on so the final step, the scanners gather what they need to extort victims out there in on eric or for greg or examine,

putting them in my information. like when i'm in my pilot among my bed. yeah, i mean, i like us, how long are mom been signed up? so, you know, on the name of the information, how often together with the b jewel and the on board hasn't been the been, i'm interested be picked up by now, but i'm not sure what time bella once and i'm sure it would have been and i'm in the same beach and, and i just show they've been and i mean my, how often be going, i'm going what danny may be getting them ready to be jewel in the for, for wait. and i'm not going to be some k b, g, b, j wasn't of me. but i'm sure the, let me blackmail demands range from $500.00 to

$15000.00. why not? why i'm going about yeah, i don't, i'm not, i'm not on the mouse. i'm on the job. i'm going be, you know, you're not worried about what's happening, what i'm saying. i don't know what i'm man, i don't i'm going on. but it's about about more than we end up with. i don't really fit on. i mean, like i know things you're on a but i going to get back to me. i had somebody said guessing what am i me guy i just copied by on. come on me, give me a call at me about that. i am not going to get them when i do not know what's going

on and i'm on the line. and so, you know, i know i know. i know. i know you're coming up and you're not, we're not, not a survivor. i send your i know nathan doing that was always bad for me actually. but i know i'm going to somebody. if not that me, the scammers work with ruthless efficiency. i went to bed. i mean, i know, i think when i'm going to be an engine, them have been and see us updated on we saw. yeah, i know you're going to be on the same, but i want to go up. why don't, why don't you buck single mom? i mean, they told me on the bus,

but up to me i called bumping up a shot that was not whether they're leaving them or not leaving fair b as in boy, do i know walk or bags? chad, that's been in the one and bear with us before the training and the para journalist simon perry says, online stick store. sion wasn't the only legal business power was running. she had another team of people helping her could use fake id cards with which he going. she or her lieutenant govern collecting money from western union branches over the name of being id. the way it works is to collect these transfers. you just need an id card that matches the name on the transfer from overseas.

this new type of crime threw up a challenge for the philippine police. captain mos cinco is a former member of the unit dedicated to cyber crime, 80 percent of our ordinance extortion cases uses social media in there's a huge difference in investigating the additional crime. like i've seen robbery case a homicide or a case of martyr dirt. nice a, this is a huge on the procedure of how you really to see cyber crime, the people them, that they do not understand that we can just happening to someone see them. and the 3rd person behind those who is my thing. and another thing is you need social media administrators or outside events. they're not here that weeks, those months, several months for us to wire the information that we saw. so we need,

we need the information to be able to identify the list of people behind the cyber crime. yeah. so for the last decade or so, we've been focusing on making the world more open and connected. and we're not done with this world is going to do this. but i used to think that if we just gave people a voice and help some people connect that that would make the world a lot better all by itself. and a lot of ways that have me police teams across the will join forces to investigate and combat fix extortion. online, one of these collaborations led the philippines, police to launch operations strike back the operation strike up to thought that the down of the syndicates indicate enrolled in log, in extortion cases,

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ah, leads arrested maria comparison. some of the workers, they seized whigs, fixed toys and other instruments. the scanner is allegedly used me. i was told that she was still active on special ed here in prison and sandra messaging, her brother, and expect. jason saying,

i'd like to hear your side of the story when you mean come and say you were in prison. to sign and surprise, she agreed to see him the she was innocent insisting that another woman in the village was the real campaign . and she was just the straight guy, she knew she almost convinced night. i mean, she told me that she can set up, she was crying. what do you think about the man who is just stupid? i told her i told her not to do it again because we've learned your lesson or so she. she could switch, cried she quickly, and clearly are quite persuasive and highly confidence and trust and probably associate probably described arising. maria perez was arrested

on charges of robbery and extortion, but the case was displeased because no probable cause was found. the philippines national police filed a motion for reconsideration, but it was denied good powers was released for whatever reasons, returning suspect, what those reasons might be. no case change because it appears to simply come to free me who the scanner is alleged power has a close relationship with local police. so don't worry about one of the phone number. i'm not, i'm bad. yeah, i got it. i know i got to look it up when he is. i don't remember, it's nothing that's in under not when i would see that that was the best bug was maybe next i've been on the might really had may be less lawyer,

michael will be in the home in the mr. guy behind my my dilemma. when my w need let me double what i don't know what i don't what i don't me, john. i know. mary, a tough for us. was quite brazen about the way she'll phrases. she posted pictures of her 15 year old son lying down covered in fires and notes and lots of pictures. she was very open about the money they were making things she personally sees any reason to stop so she can continue getting away with it and all the signs all she's going to carry on getting away. she's the queen effect stores in north hills. village is finished on her team. jim, if you like me. oh,

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