so she said together, nicholas talks about community life on the research is now on 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 scribes like this, a huge global business, and many scam us, even victims themselves. what topic on this is aaron. he was taken to me on the 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? essentially things coming in a general form is, is really a way of deception right on this coming. anything in particular phones coming or on lines coming is the modern way of social engineering attacks,

where basically are exploiting individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and making some profit. okay? scam us, pray on our trust and often offer money. one of the 1st into those games with 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, there 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 opposing as a police officer. the mind space for a family member allegedly involved in crime of accidental. but the scam took

a most send us a ton recently. thanks to a i a such a option diesel um, i mean, cuz that's the game in warehouse some cases in the west when mother's received calls, from the doses alleged kidnappers to log and danny, a mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom, the hosting mean and the quote, the voice was a i generation caught you in the someone will have her quoted the daughter's voice somewhere and use a all you to sound like house music, car, e, these a, these are also, i'm just a snippet of a re a conversation or voice mail is enough for the a i the takes too, that's a i generated videos of becoming an increasingly attractive for scam us, microsoft release day i model 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 for tom is very trusting, when someone gives us just a few pieces of information, you might like the name of someone we know masonry, showed up 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, were often not so aware of that. and then we'll manage can was what from west africa, south east asia or eastern europe and often target the rich 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 south east asia. the entire office complexes with hundreds of scams with 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 that you and people chose 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 held in situations where they have 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 all side being 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 supposed 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, i know going to bon cold. i was so scared. 8 is hours before arrow and then the other victims reach the destination. they across the river more we and end up at the notorious game factory and known as k. k park. it is here with thousands of people were taken to force to

default others in china, europe, all the was a one of the people behind the k. k pox scam factory is broken. choose peas believe to be the head of a chinese triad. according to the form of forced labor of the factory is secured by a board, a 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, 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 meet certain targets. how many people they contact and what they earn is tightly money to secure to us taking that compute test seen if we are doing a job or playing punishments in the factory audra. coney 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 employees, is using crypt double scans. convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form you connections online. ready after awhile this guy, he says, we have this type of crypto currency. i want to to learn how to currency work. so and, and this person was so kind and she said, i'm going to teach you tripped up currency such as bid cannot populate as an investment. the risk is high. and so uh, the potential profits but crypto currants,

he's up for the 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 your funds there. you can take out the money. this guy must maintain contact with the victims for months, does waiting 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 of money flowed in to a trip to wanted 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 clicked on withdraw them. and this person was, was pushing me to invest more money into, into this crypto currency. then the website went offline. the square mountain no

longer replied and the money was gone. this form of online fraud is known as peek, 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 and be very traumatizing and embarrassing for the effected then finds it as of newton's awesome . don't tell anyone that's so ashamed in the worst case, those people even take their own lives because they feel so much shane bye. sometimes rented home without side defense, having lost so much money as from the one home. it's an incredibly lucrative business for criminals in the us, for example, scam us don't a 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, scam us use slight variations to make the original it could be just the highest and whether it was non or a letter from a different alphabet job and roman scam us off and create fake profile, the reverse image. so that's gonna help, for instance, with google and some of the invent program. however, this method falls short for the face of say, 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 also a game. be all you really well. and the answer to this is, yes, i my oatmeal this morning for example. and not she was question with

a very specific on a south in the part of the about and against wisdom to unplug, come was scan. most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims. they rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure, tall to make money. for my feelings, if you have the latest suspicion of then you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible or the 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 get him off and on. but the, the, what about the people who are forced to work and scan factories far and investigate us. few powerless mas 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

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 until next time and stay vigilant the the bluetooth, his dream was within reach. she'd become a star in turkey overnight. then

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