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The scam behind wrong number and romance scams.
The New York Times published an investigative piece on the slave labor behind some of those innocuous-seeming crypto scam texts and calls.
The story focuses on one person who escaped from a compound where he was where he was forced to carry out intricate online romance scams involving crypto. The money earned from these scams is then laundered through other countries, including the US.
A word of warning: This story has descriptions of torture and captivity.
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
[The New York Times]
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