Andy Greenberg
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 28 May
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Apple News Today · He said yes to an IT job. He ended up enslaved in a scam compound. · 4 Apr 2026
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And most of these scammer teams, in fact, were not meeting their quotas, were really bad at this, were not actually pulling off these hundreds of thousands of dollars in scams.
But a few were, and the bosses would share the transcripts of successful scams, very often ones that they pulled off themselves as kind of models of the scams that they are performing.
Well, initially he didn't want to escape.
He actually wanted to stay inside to be the perfect source and to expose this place.
He said to me things like, I don't care if I live or die as long as I can expose this place and shut it down.
And I would say to him, like, I care if you live or die.
Also, we are not going to shut this place down.
Let's be clear about like, we're going to expose it.
We're going to, you know, make clear to the world how these places operate.
But, you know, I can't promise you that I will be able to shut this place down.
But his own safety was not his first priority, nor was escape.
It was only really when I said to him, like, okay, I think you've taken enough risks.
You've sent me enough stuff.
My editors at Wired were even like saying to me, like, they were very nervous about this process.
Well, you know, I've left out the part where Red Bull asked me to help him get a hidden camera, a button camera, for instance, to wear, to wear a hidden microphone, like a wire, a watch that could record his surroundings.
Yes.
I mean, his appetite for risk was enormous.
He wanted to install spyware on his boss's computer.
And I had to like research all these things and determine one by one that they were way too risky, that they would probably get him killed.
And there was no, we didn't have any illusion about the fact that like if he were caught, he probably would be killed.
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