Shabani Matani

And month after month, his wages were whittled down to almost nothing.

Schwab worked at night from 10 p.m.

to 10 a.m.

It was a nocturnal schedule because of the time zones.

He said the bosses regulated how long he could talk on the phone.

Sometimes they took his phone away and gave it back only for a few hours.

And they told him he had to keep his phone calls short.

Just quickly check in with your family, but don't tell them anything about what you do.

But if you called your family and told them, like, hey, something is wrong?

So you didn't tell anybody anything?

The guilt ate away at tribes slowly.

When he'd left Kampala, he brought a Quran with him.

But rather than just praying for himself and his escape, when he said his daily prayers, he started praying that the clients who withdrew their profits wouldn't come back.

But Schreib said that he gradually came to think it wasn't just the killers who were greedy.

He believed the clients themselves were also pulled in by greed.

Because they should have known.

The arrangement?

So when we say scam company, the word company, it's entirely apt.

You can't think of these as sort of scrappy little criminal enterprises or mafia in the jungle.

They're run like a business.