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A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia has been revealed to involve forced labor and torture. Guracha Belachew Bersha, an Ethiopian man, was offered a job by a fintech firm in Thailand but was instead trafficked to Myanmar. There, he was enslaved for 16 months by Chinese gangsters and forced to scam hundreds online, posing as 'Alicia'. Bersha, now freed, detailed his experience in a pig butchering scam center.
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Not all scams are simple phishing emails. This is the story of a retired lawyer taken for $740K. How? By convincing him he was helping authorities. "For Mr. Heitin, it began in September, when he was unable to log into his 401(k) retirement account." https://t.co/PhndXht0Sj
via โฆ@nytimesโฉ a lot of this is happening to seniors. The scammers are very sophisticated & believable https://t.co/G3PisA84Pk