Matt Parker
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And eventually that child, the unsuspecting victim, would say, hey, you know, please don't share that photo.
And then the relationship changes and the veil comes off and the perpetrator said, I'm going to share that image with your mom or your friends on Facebook or your school community.
And a lot of these perpetrators have done a lot of homework on that child's community and they're name dropping.
Wow.
And so the child is terrified.
They're not equipped to handle that.
Right.
And unfortunately, it's led to.
A lot of teen suicide here in the United States.
Jeez.
And some of our more recent investigations have uncovered that a lot of the perpetrators aren't even within our country.
They're from Nigeria or Myanmar.
These are targeted attacks on the United States teenagers.
Well, it's an interesting development.
A lot of the perpetration is actually caused by someone who's been trafficked and is under duress.
It's called forced criminality.
So right now, one of the largest human trafficking situations in the world is coming from scamming compounds, is what we call them.
And there's many of them in Myanmar.
There's some in Cambodia and the Philippines.
There's some in Africa, parts of Africa.