Mariana van Zeller

They make money that way or work at clubs or...

And a lot of them lost their jobs during COVID and they had no government assistance.

And so they found a way to make some money this way by sextorting Americans.

And that was super, a crazy journey too.

Just one of the scenes we filmed was we spent time in a prison with a guy that was in prison for extorting Filipino women.

And it was sort of the beginning of our investigation.

We were trying to figure out if he was connected to anyone else, thinking he was like sort of small fish, just extorting people in the Philippines.

And then by talking to him, he basically admits on camera while talking to me.

But actually, I've done this to many, many Americans, and one of them, and I asked him, do you know anyone who's committed suicide?

Because it's a huge problem in the U.S.

He was like, yes.

There was one man who was married.

He was an engineer, I believe.

And he committed suicide after we extorted him.

And I said, how do you know?

He says, because his camera laptop was on and we could see it.

I was like, wait, did you not try to stop him?

I was like, no, because we heard people saying that they were going to commit suicide, but they never did, so we thought he was bluffing.

And then we saw him as he dies on camera.

Jesus.