Andy Greenberg

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430 appearances 2 recordings 2 series 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 podcast
Well, in fact, there were moments when Red Bull would mention to me, too, that he could pay his way out.
You could essentially pay off your debt, pay a ransom, and be released.
It was several thousand dollars.
And that, to me, was like, you know, that's not that much money for a man's life.
I
thought we could just do this for him.
But of course, like my second thought is like, you can't reward a human trafficking operation.
You can't pay a source even in journalism.
That's a violation of journalistic ethics.
And especially when you're paying that money to criminals and rewarding them essentially for kidnapping someone.
So sadly, you know, we could not pay that.
And he, when I said this to him, Red Bull was very clear, like, I never asked you to, but it did cause
really raise this question of like, where are the boundaries here?
How can we help this guy without violating that journalist-source relationship?
I always wanted to do more for him, but I also knew that he was risking his life to achieve this act of whistleblowing, and I didn't want to corrupt that by...
paying him, he never asked me to, I should be clear.
But I should say too, we're getting onto the subject, I feel like I need to address another thing that was in the back of my mind the whole time, which was this suspicion that maybe he was scamming me.
Well, it was when he mentioned the fact that he could pay his way out.
Then I started to wonder, like, is this a kind of pig-butchering romance scam, where it's a romance between a journalist and a source, and we build a relationship.
I come to feel like I owe him
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