Andy Greenberg
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430 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 28 May
Andy Greenberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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 threatened, like, if you don't find someone to pay for your freedom, we're just going to kill you, is what seemed to be the situation now.
But still, I have to say, like, this actually was the kind of peak moment of also fearing that he might be scamming me.
Because now I knew that somebody needed to pay his ransom to save his life.
And maybe this all along had been the endgame of him scamming me, you know, like what if this was all part of the scam that he would pretend to be caught by his bosses, tell me that I needed to pay thousands of dollars to save his life.
And even again, like the people who I put him in touch with, the human rights activists and other folks who I thought might be able to help him escape, they thought still that this might be a scam.
Was this a scam or not?
Absolutely.
It was not a scam.
Unfortunately, this nightmare was entirely real.
Red Bull was real.
The whistleblowing was real.
He is a fully legitimate source.
His motivations were nothing but pure in his intention to expose this place.
So for weeks, in fact, he was held in that room and starved and beaten.
He was fed like only sometimes like spoiled leftovers.
His bosses came to treat him almost like a dog.
He slept on the floor.
He was told to get back to work sometimes, but mostly he was just held as a kind of captive.
And then in another kind of twist in the story.
The bosses get a tip that there's going to be a police raid on the compound because they have their own sources inside the Laotian police.
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