Pig Butchering Scams: Inside the scam Call Centres Forcing victims into Fraud

About this episode

This episode explores the dark world of pig butchering scams and the experiences of those trapped in scam call centres.

Tell us your story here! This week, Scams, Hacks and Frauds asks what really goes on inside an Internet scam call centre? This week we go deep into the pig butchering scam industry — and the shocking truth that many of the people running these internet scams are themselves victims. We tell the story of a chef who travelled to Southeast Asia looking for work and found himself trafficked into a scam call centre in Myanmar, forced to run pig butchering scams against his will; and a Chinese acto...

People in this episode

Host: Cee

Topics covered

• scam call centres
• pig butchering scams
• human trafficking
• victim stories
• internet scams

Keywords

• scam call centres
• pig butchering
• human trafficking
• internet scams
• victim stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Southeast Asia, Myanmar

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