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The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam
Manage episode 430518761 series 2347959
After our last episode on an online romance scam operating out of Palau we were contacted by Neo Lu, who was trafficked to work in an online scam camp on the Myanmar-Thailand border, the victim of a $US3 trillion global criminal industry. He joins Louisa and Graeme to offer jaw-dropping detail on life inside a scam centre, the mechanics of pig butchering, who benefits from this new form of slavery and how they launder their profits.
Image: c/- Yihao Lu, Scamming equipment, Dongmei Camp, 2022
Episode transcripts are available at https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
106 episodes
Manage episode 430518761 series 2347959
After our last episode on an online romance scam operating out of Palau we were contacted by Neo Lu, who was trafficked to work in an online scam camp on the Myanmar-Thailand border, the victim of a $US3 trillion global criminal industry. He joins Louisa and Graeme to offer jaw-dropping detail on life inside a scam centre, the mechanics of pig butchering, who benefits from this new form of slavery and how they launder their profits.
Image: c/- Yihao Lu, Scamming equipment, Dongmei Camp, 2022
Episode transcripts are available at https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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