Shabani Matani

In the script that Schreib used, there was a section included in it called Personal Conversation.

Small tidbits of information that would make someone trust the stranger that they were speaking to, you know, on a social networking platform.

In one script, he was Antonella Camboni, an Italian living in California who deeply valued her financial security.

In another, he was a 34-year-old with a dog named Toby.

The tone was never pushy.

So I guess most of your clients were American, right?

After Schreib convinced his client to sign up, his goal was to get them to withdraw their money.

That was his goal, to get them to withdraw.

The client had to see that the scheme was working.

They had to gain something from it, you know, so that they would come back.

And then once they did, once they put in a deposit, withdrew it, Shuai would hand the client up the chain until eventually that client interacted with a killer.

This killer would convince the client to make their very last deposit before emptying out the whole wallet.

Schwab said that after each kill, the killers would celebrate.

Schwab said he heard some of the killers boast about how they made a huge kill from a client with a hospitalized kid.

He heard killers talk about targeting entire communities of retirees.

Schreib said he considered telling clients he spoke to that this was a scam so they could get out of it.

Did you ever think, like,

Did you ever feel very emotional or very upset?

But he and the other workers, they were under constant surveillance.

Schwab told me there was an isolation room on the fifth floor of the building.