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so that's all for now. next up, house, lease. i used to stop up scans. factories in may a month. that's on ships because this morning using our website, the www dot com. this also mon use at the top of the hour. stay with us, the conflicts, crises, every single connection mapped out shows the geophysical reality. the on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, this shadows these pop costs and video shed lights on the dog is devastating. colonial har is infected by germany across and he employed the schools, farms and destroy nights. what is the legacy of this wide spread race as depression
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today? history? we need to talk about the stories, shadows of german colonialism. wait, am i reading this right? i can follow social media accounts and make over $260.00 in a day. well, it's a scam of course, but scans like this, a huge global business, and many scam us, even victims themselves. what topic on ship? this is aaron. he was taken to me um uh, under false pretences and forced to scam people online or via the phone. we'll show you aaron story in a moment, but what exactly is scamming to essentially things coming in a general form is, is a really way of deception right on this coming. anything in particular phones coming
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or on lines coming is a modern way of social engineering. get tags where basically are exploiting individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and making some profit. ok. scam us, pray on our trust and often offer money. one of the 1st into those games were poorly with an email from the so called nigeria connection. for example, i receive money in my account which i then transfer in exchange for a reward. of course that isn't any and as effectively longer to the money. but in today's world, it scans out on the rise using a software like chat, c, p t scam us can now translate, scam emails into any language with increasing accuracy, mistake free and tailored to each target group. one popular scam is the so called shock, called a scam, a pausing as a police officer, the mon space for
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a family member, allegedly involved in the crime of accident. but the scam took a more sinister turn recently. thanks to a i a such a option diesel um, i mean, cuz of the game in warehouse some cases in the west when mothers received calls from the doses alleged kidnappers throughout the year, a mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom the hushing me, and of course the voice was a i generation high. she give me a someone will have her quoted the daughter's voice somewhere. that's what i'm used to sound like house and coffee. these a, these are also, i'm just a snippet of a re, a conversation or voice mail is enough for the a i deep takes to that, say i generated videos. i'll be coming and increasing the attractive for scam us. microsoft, i don't really say i'm a little boss. one for example, can generate animations from a single photo from say, an instagram account. do some pushups,
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run up and down the stairs. any language can be lips inc. professionals with forensic tools may still be able to identify the face, but i meant to us on the other hand, might have difficulty spotting them, especially at 1st glance. the most important thing for scam us is not the technology but gaining the trust of the victims. we have a yeah, as a mazda image for tom is very trusting, when someone gives us just a few pieces of information like the name of someone, we know me front of the shows that information is easily accessible on social media, things like that, who i am friends with who i am in contact with. anyone could go and use the names. we're also not so aware of that them. but man is cameras work from west africa, southeast asia, or eastern europe, and often target the richard global volume. really, people that targeted 1st like children and seniors,
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but also people who are lowly tricked by so called roman scam. us. taking advantage of financially scamming has long been part of organized crime world wide in south east asia. the entire office complexes where hundreds of scams were side by side, but in many cases the people in the so called scam factories are actually victims themselves having and brought the under false pretences and forced to defraud others. you end report shows the scale of this more than the form of slavery. credible sources indicate that at least a 120000 people across me and my may be holding situations where they are forced to carry out online scans with estimates in cambodia. similarly, as a 100000 other states in the region including allow pedia, the philippines and thailand have old site being identified as mine,
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countries of destination or transit, where at least tens of thousands of people have been involved around to was forced into scamming of those against as well for months, she spoke to the w about his experiences, his nightmare beginning a trip to a job interview in bangkok, thailand we were suppose to go to a hotel that is like maybe 10 minutes away from the airport. but we drove in a different direction. 10 minutes turned it to several hours. that's when we realized to be a no going to button. i was so scared. 8 is hours before the arrow and then the other victims reach the destination. they across the river more we and end up at the notorious scam factory and known as k. k pock is here with thousands of people were taken to force to
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defraud others in china, europe, all the was a one of the people behind the k k pox. scam factory is broken choose, he's believe, to be the head of a chinese triad. according to the form of forced labor. as the factory is secured by a board, a god unit from northern myanmar, which in turn consists of form a rebels. the victims on not only from the region, but like aaron also from africa. for example, k. k, pock is professionalized even to the extent that the forest workers must study manuals with precise instructions on how to build trust and exploit weaknesses. they must needs certain targets. how many people they contact and what they earn is tightly money to secure to us checking computers. seeing if we are doing our job or playing punishments in the factory audra. coney and you are denied food. if you
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don't have new customers by noon. and if you don't answer on time, you'll beeping or forced to stand for hours, 17 hour working days, no vacation, no break. this is what several of the victims told. dw report as those who want to leave all threatened with death or being sold to another factory. one of the methodist k, k park and others can factories force the workers to employ is using crypt double scams. convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form and you connections on line. ready so while. ready this guy, he says, we have this type of control currency. i wanted to learn how to come and see what so. and, and this person was so kind. he said, i'm going to teach you tripped up currency such as a bit co, not popular as an investment. the risk is high and so the potential of profits but
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crypto currencies up 40 regulated transactions difficult to trace which also makes them highly attractive for organized crime. so i trusted this person and you know, i let him teach me if you invest in the website, you can see your funds there. you can take out the money. this guy must maintain contact with the victims for months, persuading them to invest more as more money. all right, so the website was legitimate. she was convinced she wasn't investing no savings. well, instead of money flowed in to a crypto, wanted a kind of digital account. and was at the hands of the fraud says i wanted to withdraw a couple of $1000.00, then i could then withdraw them. and this person was, was pushing me to invest more money into into this crypto currency. then the
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website went offline, the sky mountain no longer replied and the money was gone. this form of online fraud is known as peek, butchering the fraud stuff, patterns the victim up before taking them to the slaughter house. and do less wondering why is this person doing this to me? laura was looking for like minded people online, but this search ended up costing her a lot of money. scans like that can often involve 5 figures, sounds and be very traumatizing and embarrassing for the effected then finds it as of victims often don't tell anyone that's so ashamed. in the worst case, those people even take their own lives because they feel so much shame name by sometimes rented what outside defense having lost so much money that's from the one . um, it's an incredibly lucrative business for criminals in the us, for example, scam us the monumental $10000000000.00 from private individuals in 2023. and that's
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not even including scams against companies. so how can you protect yourself? scam us off and use false identities, posing us bank or postal service employees. if you suspect the scam, it is best to stop by checking the spelling of email addresses for websites. since the real addresses already taken, scam us use slight variations to make the original. it could be just a hyphen, whether it was non or a letter from a different alphabet sob. and roman scam us off and create fake profile, the reverse image. so it's going to help, for instance, with google and so the invalid program. however, this method falls short for the face of say, call us stop. that's to give it to you to how to act. these is all you can do is make up a code word or a question and on the game you must be all you really well. and the answer to this is yes, i have my own meal this morning for example. and not she was question with
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a very specific on a so often the hog off the about in a guns wisdom to unfold, come, was scanned. most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims. they rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure, tall to make money. am i with the existing stuff? if you have drawings in the slightest suspicion of then you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible at the order of listening. you should not reply to the email man, but also someone else not get involved in a conversation. and i know that is the best counter measure. we have the best to get most number to the what about the people who are forced to work and scan factories? foreign investigators feel powerless. mazda legal system is often corrupt arrow and a few others will lucky aid workers on the tie side of the border menace to free them. why they were being transported to a novice scan factory via thailand. but transfers like this really happened and not
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every rescue goes to plan. scam us off with one step ahead of investigate as also because all 4 of these drago to co operate across national borders and the days as our growing and on the rise. as a i office cameras, new avenues for exportation, so we must continue to keep a close eye on them. thanks for watching and next time and stay vigilant. the or how many of you speak more than 2 languages?
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at least 2 or more languages. we used to be taught to speak english. why we, we can from crowns of speaking. we have to embrace and imply healy, but do you, do you lose you? i just simply by learning a level language, when i speak english, i said, please do requesting this 77 percent. next on d. w. curious. well, most successful car insurance not taking himself too seriously. makes me a straight male dominated rev . in 16 minutes on d w, the
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words people have to say to the that's why we listen. because every weekend on d w the this week on the 77 percent street debate, we used to be forced to speak english. why we, we can from becky ground of speaking. so here we have been raised and in, so i really what do you do you lose? your identity is simply by learning another language. when i speak english, i church mckinsey, which means i have to leave all my coaches behind body fun barely me to, to, to, to do not get new phones or when you flop back.