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that's part of our community life. on the server, 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 scans like this, a huge global business. and many scam us, even victims themselves. what topic on ship? this is arrow. 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? essentially, things coming in a general form is, is really a way of deception, right? and it's coming anything in particular phones coming or all lines coming is the

modern way of social engineering attacks, where basically are exploiting individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to move them and making some profit. okay. 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, there isn't any and effectively longer to the money, but in today's world, it scans out on the rise using a software like chuck 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 is a police officer, do you mind 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 a option diesel um i think the game in warehouse some cases in the west when mothers received calls from the doses alleged kidnappers throughout logging down here, a mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom, the hosting mean, and of course the voice was a i generation caught you in the someone will have recorded the daughter's voice somewhere else and use a all you to sound like house meet, cut the, these, the it is 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 posts, cameras. microsoft on 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, 1st gamma, is not the technology, but gaining the trust of the victims yet 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, we're also not so aware of that. and then we'll just manage cameras, work from west africa, south east asia or eastern europe, and often target the rich a global volume. really, people are 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 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 that you and ripple chose the scale of this more on form of slavery. a credible sources indicate that at least a 120000 people across me and my may be held in 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 all side being identified as mine,

countries of destination, all 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 turned it to several hours. that's when we realized to be, i know going to bind cold. i was so scared. 8 is hours before arrow and then the other victims reach that destination. they across the river more we and, and 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 usa, one of the people behind the k, k pox scam factory is broken, choose peace, 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, or take a pocket professional lives 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 have the natural or plain punishments and 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 methodist k, k park and others can factories force the workers to employees is using crypto scans, convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form new connections online. after awhile. ready this guy, he says, we have this type of crypto currency. i wanted to learn how to currency work. so, and, and this person was so kind. he said, i'm going to teach you tripped up currency such as big co, not popular as an investment. the risk is high and so uh, the 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 let him teach me if you invest in the website, you can see your funds there. you can take out the money to scam us, maintain contact with the victims for months, does waiting them to invest more as more money. all right, so the website was legitimate. she was convinced she was investing her savings. well, instead somebody flowed in to a, tripped 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 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 sky 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 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 cases, people even take their own lives because they feel so much shame name, but sometimes rented honeywell devices and 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 address is 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, 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 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 on. so game 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 the part of the about and it comes wisdom to unfold. come was most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims. they rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure, tall to make money for them. i think if you have driven the lightest suspicion up, then you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible that 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 count to measure, so we have the best to getting most number to the what about the people who are forced to work in 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

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 curious well,

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