of winning the champions league. and with that you are up to date is coming up next . thousands in south east asia, a being forced to defraud people online tech show shift takes a look at site slavery and then you can just mckinnon. thanks so much for watching . the come have a piece of this out. take the highlights you every week in your inbox. subscribe now. in charlotte and g. more people than ever on the news world volume in such a fashion life. in los angeles as a committed car, passport the national scale is you come back on the car battery or something,

then that's okay. that's the nanda foundation, one bucks to the next. find out about me being a story in some language, reliable news for migraines. wherever they may be, 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. i'm under false pretences and forced to scam people online or via the phone. we'll show you ever the 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 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 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 as effectively longer to the money. but in today's world, i scams 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 mother's 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 hosting mean and those quotes, the voice was a i generation caught you in the someone will have her quoted the daughter's voice somewhere else and use a all you to sound like house music, car the, these a it, 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, i don't really say 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 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 were often not so aware of that. and then we'll just 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 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 that you entered people, chose 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 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 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 turned it to several hours. that's when we realized to be, i know going to button cold. i was so scared. it is hours before arrow and then the other victims reach that 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 will take into 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. he's believe to be the head of a chinese trial. yet, 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 are not only from the region but like aaron also from africa. for example, a k. k park 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 earned is tightly money to secure to us check and compute test seen if we have

d nodule or plain 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 scams. convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form you connections on line of so while this guy, he says, we have this type of control 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 over i thought 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 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 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 shane bye. sometimes rented home without side defense, having lost so much money as cardinal on 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 job and roman scam us off and create fake profile, the reverse image. so it's going to help, for instance, with google and some of the invalid program. however, this method falls short for the face of say, call us. and it was a step 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 some game, be all you really well. 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 south in the heart of the about in a guns wisdom. to unplug commerce, most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims. they rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure, tall to make money. somebody would be choosing to, if you have given the aligned to suspicion often you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible act or the as listening. you should not reply to the email then, 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 do 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 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 time mushrooms save the world. kendra,

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