a mess, things up, roosting brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage. humans and multitasking watch. now on youtube, v. w documentary. 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 aaron. he was taken to me, um, uh, under false pretences and for us to scam people online or via the phone, we'll show you ever the story at the moment. but what exactly is scanning? 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 on lines coming is

a modern way of social engineering attacks where basically are pointing individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and, and making some profit. okay? scam us pray on our trust and often offer money. one of the 1st entered 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. just take free and tailor to each target group. one popular scam is the so called shock called a scam. a pausing is a police officer, the monster paid for a family member, allegedly involved in the crime or accident. but the scam took

a more sinister ton recently. thanks to a i a such else on diesel that. i think that's the game where they have been cases in the west when mother's received calls, from the doses alleged kidnappers throughout all the mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom, the hosting me and the quote, 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 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, 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 south east asia. the entire office complex is 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 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 tied 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 bind cold. i was so skid 8 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 triad. according to the former, 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 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 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 reporters, 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 on line. ready after a while. ready this guy, he says, we have this type of control currency. i wanted 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 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 your funds there. you can take out the money. this guy must maintain contact with the victims 4 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 her 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 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 frost of patents, the victim up before taking them to the slaughter house. and you are left 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 shame name, but 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 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, 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 sob, 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, 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 i'll send a hog off the about in a guns wisdom to onboard come. most scan, most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims today. rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure, tall to make money. somebody with the existing stuff. if you have 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 then, but also someone else not get involved in a conversation. you know, 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 work is on the tie side of the border menace to free them. why they were being transported to a novice scam 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 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 the c w. this is everything else is available to them and it has never been since the

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24 year old roman is ready to climb up to his current home. he has been living in a tree house in the forest for the past month. and that's not 1st of all, i look forward to some very much. i always feel deeply happy in the woods ever since i got here. i've also felt fully grounded. but a part of this forest is to be cut down to expand a factory that is building climate friendly electric cars. a contradiction says roman who is set to start his master's, specializing in environmental protection. he and others are occupying the trees as a form of civil resistance to tesla. many of the activists cover their faces when the cameras are on. roman's name is also only an alias.