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global. so listen to a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed if the care is subscribe to those channels. we've got every friday. subscribe to plan. it's a the 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 manage cameras. even victims themselves. what topic on ship? this is aaron. he was taken to me and 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 or on lines coming is

a modern way of social engineering attacks where basically are exploiting individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and making some profit. ok, scam us, pray allow of 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 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 opposing as a police officer. the mon space for a family member allegedly involved in the crime or accident. but the scam took the

most in just a ton recently. thanks to a i a such an option diesel um, i mean, cuz that's the game in warehouse some cases in the west when mothers received calls from the doses alleged kidnappers through logging down here, a mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom, the hosting me and of course the voice was a i generation caught you in the someone will have her quoted the daughter's voice somewhere else and used a all you to sound like house music, car, e, d, 's a. and these are also, i'm just a snippet of a re, a conversation or voice mail is enough for the a i the takes 2, that's a i generated videos i'll be coming and increasing the attractive for scam us. microsoft are released a little boss. one, for example, can generate animations from a single photo from say, an instagram account. do some pushups,

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 via they are. yeah. as a mazda image. so tom is very trusting when someone gives us just a few pieces of information, like the name of someone we know masonry 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. and then we'll bestow manage cameras work from west africa, south east asia or eastern europe, and often target the rich a global volume. really, people that targeted 1st like children and seniors,

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 southeast 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, actually victims themselves, having been brought there under false pretences and forced to defraud of us are you and report shows the scale of this more than the form of slavery. a credible sources indicate that at least a 120000 people across me and my may be holding situations where they are forced to carry out on line scans with estimates in cambodia. similarly, as a $100000.00 other states in the region including allow pedia, the philippines and thailand have also been identified as mine,

countries of destination or transit, where at least tens of thousands of people have been involved, run to was forced into scamming of those against as well, for months, she spoke to the w about his experiences, his nightmare. begin on 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 to and it was several hours. that's when we realized to be, i'm not going to button i was so scared. 8 is hours before the arrow and then the other victims reach the destination. they cross the river more, we and end up at the notorious scam factory and known as k. k park. it is here with thousands of people will take into for us to default 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 border god unit from northern myanmar, which in turn consists of form a rebels. the victims are not only from the region but like arrow and also from africa. for example, a 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 need 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 aconia and you are

denied food. if you 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 methods k, k park and others can factories force their workers to employ is using crypto scans . convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form new connections on line. ready so while. ready ready this guy, he says, we have this type of control currency. i want to to learn how to come and see what so. and, and this person was so kind and he said, i'm going to teach you tripped up currency such as bit co, not popular as an investment risk as high. and so other potential profits but

crypto currencies up 40 regulated transactions, difficult to trace which also makes them highly attractive for organized crime. so i trust that this person and you know, i, i let him teach me if you invest in the website, you can see a 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 and all right, so the website was legitimate. she was convinced she was investing her savings. well, instead somebody flowed in to a crypt, a wallet, a kind of digital account and was at the hands of the fraud says i wanted to withdraw a couple of $1000.00 and i could then withdraw them. and this person was, was pushing me to invest more money into, into this crypto currency. then the website went offline,

the sky mountain no longer replied and the money was gone. this form of online fraud as long as peak butchering the fraud stuff. patton's 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. sam's, 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, but sometimes rented hardware devices on having lost so much money that's from the one home. 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

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 skim, su slight variations to make the original. it could be just the highest and whether it was non or a letter from a different alphabet, saab and roman scam us off and create fake profile. the reverse image search can help, for instance, with google lens or the invalid program. however, this method falls short for the face of fake call us stop the best. so 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. so game 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

a very specific on a so often a hog off the about in a guns wisdom to unfold. come most scan, most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims. they rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure, tall to make money. somebody with it's using stuff. if you have the reason the slightest suspicion of then you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible, act order. as 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 count to measure. we have the best to getting most number to the what about the people who are forced to work in scan factories. foreign investigators, few 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 happen. and not

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 dangers are 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 of the we travel across the african continent, houston, those who did in this life bringing down, i'm sure that can motivate you. and also what do you need to come to the end of the

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