Human trafficking victims tortured into scamming innocent people

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Inside the global scamming factories. Adam Hegarty reports on the frightening way new A.I. technology is being used to steal billions of dollars from unsuspecting victims.

Period25 Aug 2024

Media coverage

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Media coverage

  • TitleHuman trafficking victims tortured into scamming innocent people
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outlet60 Minutes Australia
    Media typeTelevision
    Duration/Length/Size31:56
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    Date25/08/24
    DescriptionIt’s positive news, kind of. In the last year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ASIC, has identified and shut down more than 7,300 phishing and investment scam websites. While it has stopped victims here losing millions, the scammers are still winning, raking in billions. They’re also coming up with more and more technically sophisticated ways to rip off their prey. As Adam Hegarty reports, much of this criminality is now headquartered in the failed state of Myanmar. There, trans-national crime bosses have resorted to human trafficking to amass a 120,000-strong workforce of scammers, who all day long are forced to con westerners out of their money.
    Producer/AuthorLaura Sparkes
    URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b7JAX03x2Q
    PersonsMichelle Moore

Keywords

  • Forced Criminality
  • Trafficking In Persons
  • Human Trafficking
  • Transnational Organised Crime