Matt Parker

And what happens is a mafia group in Asia, the Chinese mafia, they will...

recruit young 20-something IT professionals for a job, right?

And so it looks like labor migration.

Young people are like, yeah, I get to travel for work.

And they arrive into Bangkok under the promise of work, and then they're driven across the border into Myanmar.

Wow.

And they're held in a factory, basically, where they're forced to scam or sextort teenagers or people here in the United States.

So I don't know if you've gotten some of those texts.

I get them once a month or every other week, somebody pretending to know you, and then most of us are like, hey, I'm sorry you have the wrong number.

That is probably a trafficked victim in a foreign country who's being forced to send you that text, and their goal is one of two things.

Or three things.

A romance scheme, you know, so they're preying on vulnerable people who may really desire a relationship, and they're kind of trafficking intimacy, right?

They're like, hey, have a relationship with me, and they'll send you a fake photo, even fake videos, to make you think it's a beautiful woman, and then you enter into this relationship.

or they invite you into a cryptocurrency investment scheme.

And it sounds and looks so real in these compounds.

They have very sophisticated but fake investment platforms that look legitimate.

And they are convincing typically retirees but others in the United States to empty their savings

to gamble like we do here in vegas right like hey i'm gonna make you rich and people fall for that and it's not real and as soon as they've emptied their savings that the the that veil comes down uh or the third thing is sextortion right

What we've already kind of mentioned, convincing children to send a nude, and then as soon as they do that, they demand money or more nudes.

And in that regard, there's two things that are happening.