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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The police, like, you know, from back home in India, he was going to pretend that they were investigating him and had visited his family.
And that if he didn't go home to India to address this, to talk to the cops, then it would create problems, not just for him, but for the whole scam compound.
So he was going to show this letter to his bosses and ask them to let him go home just temporarily was the story.
And I told him, like, I don't think this is going to work.
I think they're going to detect that it's a forgery.
But he has a big appetite for risk, as I said, and he just went ahead with it.
And the next thing that I heard from him was, you know, probably one of the worst emails I've gotten in my life.
And I can read it for you.
The email read, the people catch me and they get my phone, everything.
They beat me and now maybe they kill me.
wow how did you feel my mind really went like blank almost with panic like i i had been trying to work with this guy and help him protect himself for weeks at that point and now this was like the nightmare scenario he tried to escape and i would later learn was now being held in a room where he was beaten and starved drugged questioned and you know i thought he might die in there
Well, absolutely.
I mean, I felt incredible guilt that I had not been able to do more for him.
I felt like I had tried everything I could within the boundaries of journalism.
By the way, his bosses had not detected that he was in contact with me.
They never, as far as I know, found out that he was speaking to a journalist.
They were punishing him for trying to escape.
And I went into full-on kind of like remote rescue mode, which is not my expertise or my job, but I was like trying to find people in the area who could help him, who could advise him.
He was giving back his phone so that he could find someone to pay his ransom.
He was essentially now just being held ransom inside the compound by his bosses.
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