Andy Greenberg

You can call me from any name, brother, no matter.

Oh, but you tell me, just so I know how to talk to you and what name to call you.

You can make one up if you like, of course.

You can call me Red Bull, okay?

Oh, Red Bull?

Red Bull?

Okay, okay.

And I later found out that he was looking at an empty can of Red Bull Energy drink on the table in front of him when he said that.

He was so motivated as a source, so driven, that I was like kind of almost, you know, I was a little put off.

I was...

wary of this person and I quickly kind of actually hung up and then called him back on a video call because I wanted to see who I was talking to and he picked up with no hesitation and showed me his face on the video call showed me around the hotel room he had actually managed to book a hotel room

And I asked him to show me out the window, to walk outside the hotel.

It was nighttime my time, but it was daytime there.

And he showed me the front of the hotel, which I could see that it was a Chinese language sign, that there were palm trees and that it looked like a kind of poor tropical area where everything was in Chinese.

And like that certainly sounded like the Golden Triangle to me.

So, you know, I started to get what felt like confirmation very quickly that he was Chinese.

who he said and that he really was in a scam compound and that he was in the Golden Triangle.

You know, I was also surprised.

Like I had read reports of these scam slavery compounds where people are held in shackles and beaten every day and electrocuted in some cases.

And, you know, they're held almost like in the jungle and remote places.