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and many scam us even victims themselves. what topic on this is aaron he was taken to me on the under false pretences and forced to scam people online or via the phone. we'll show you aaron story in a moment. but what exactly is scamming? essentially things coming in a general form is, is a really way of deception right on this coming. anything in particular phones coming or on lines coming is a modern way of social engineering attacks where basically are exploiting individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and, and making some profit. ok, scam us, pray, allow of trust and often offer money. one of the 1st into those games with poorly, with an email from the so called nigeria connection. for example, i receive money in my account which i then transfer in exchange for a reward. of course that isn't any and effectively longer to the money. but in
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today's world, it scans out on the rise using a software like chat, c, p t scam us can now translate, scam emails into any language with increasing accuracy, mistake free and tailored to each target group. one popular scam is the so called shock, called a scam, a pausing as a police officer, the monster paid for a family member, allegedly involved in the crime of accident. but the scam took a most sinister turn recently. thanks to a i a such a option diesel um, i mean, cuz that's the game and where that happened cases into us when mothers received calls from the doses alleged kidnappers through logging down the mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom the hosting mean and those quotes, the voice was a generation cut, you know, someone will have her quoted,
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the daughter's voice somewhere. that's what i'm used to sound like house and coffee . these a, these are also, i'm just a snippet of a re, a conversation or voice mail is enough for the a i deep face to that say i generated videos i'll be coming and increasing the attractive for scam us. microsoft are released a little boss. one for example, can generate animations from a single photo from say, an instagram account. do some pushups, run up and down the stairs. any leg which can be lips inc. professionals with forensic tools may still be able to identify the face, but i meant to us on the other hand, might have difficulty spotting them, especially at 1st glance. the most important thing for scam us is not the technology, but gaining the trust of the victims via they are. yeah, as a mazda image for tom is very trusting, when someone gives us just a few pieces of information you mind like the name of someone we know me front of
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the shows that information is easily accessible on social media, things like that, who i am friends with who i am in contact with, anyone could go and use the names. we're also not so aware of that. and then we'll just manage cameras, work from west africa, southeast asia, or eastern europe, and often target the richard global volume. really, people that targeted 1st like children and seniors, but also people who are lowly tricked by so called roman scam. us. taking advantage of financially scamming has long been part of organized crime world wide in south east asia. the entire office complexes where hundreds of scams were side by side, but in many cases the people in the so called scam factories are actually victims themselves having and brought the under false pretences and forced to defraud
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others. you end report shows the scale of this more than the form of slavery. credible sources indicate that at least a 100 ton consists of form of rebels. the victims on not only from the region, but like aaron also from africa. for example, k k pock is professionalized even to the extent that the forest workers must study manuals with precise instructions on how to build trust and exploit weaknesses. they must needs certain targets. how many people they contact and what they earn is tightly money to secure to us checking computers. seeing if we are doing our job or playing punishments in the factory. audra aconia and you are denied food. if you don't have new customers by noon, and if you don't answer on time, you'll beeping or forced to stand for hours, 17 hour working days, no vacation, no break. this is what several of the victims told,
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dw report as those who want to leave all threatened with death or being sold to another factory. one of the methodist k, k park and others can factories force the workers to employ is using crypt double scams. convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form and you connections on line. ready so while this guy, he says, we have this type of control currency, i want to to learn how to come and see what so and, and this person was so kind he said, i'm going to teach you tripped up currency such as a bit co, not popular as an investment risk as high as so other potential profits but crypto currants, he's up 40 regulated transactions, difficult to trace, which also makes them highly attractive for organized crime. so i trust that this person and you know, i, i let him teach me if you're investing the website,
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you can see your funds there. you can take out the money. this guy must maintain contact with the victims for months, does waiting them to invest more as more money and all right, so the website was legitimate. she was convinced she wasn't investing no savings. well, instead of money flowed into a crypto, wanted a kind of digital account and was at the hands of the fraud. says i wanted to withdraw a couple of $1000.00, then i could then withdraw them. and this person was, was pushing me to invest more money into, into this crypto currency. then the website went offline, the sky mountain no longer replied and the money was gone. this form of online fraud is known as peek. butchering the frost of patents, the victim up before taking them to the slaughter house. and you are left wondering
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why is this person doing this to me? laura was looking for like minded people online, but this search ended up costing her a lot of money. scans like that can often involve 5 figures. sam's and be very traumatizing and embarrassing for the effected then finds it as of newton's awesome . don't tell anyone that's so ashamed in the worst case, those people even take their own lives because they feel so much shame name, but sometimes rented home without side defense. having lost so much money as from the one home. it's an incredibly lucrative business for criminals in the us, for example, scam us the monumental $10000000000.00 from private individuals in 2023. and that's not even including scams against companies. so how can you protect yourself? scam us off and use false identities. posing us bank or postal service employees, if you suspect the scam, it is best to stop by checking the spelling of email addresses for websites.
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since the real addresses already taken skim, su slight variations to make the original. it could be just the highest and whether it was non or a letter from a different alphabet job and roman scam us off and create fake profile, the reverse image. so that's gonna help, for instance, with google and some of the invalid program. however, this method falls short for the face of say, call us, stop the best. so give it to you to how to act. these is all you can do is make up a code word or a question and on. so game must be all you really well. and the answer to this is, yes, i have my own meal this morning for example. and not she was question with a very specific on a so often the part of the about in a guns wisdom to unplug commerce, most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims. they rely on flattery, sympathy,
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or time pressure. tall to make money. am i with the existing stuff? if you have drawings in the slightest suspicion of then you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible at the order of listening. you should not reply to the email man, but also someone else not get involved in a conversation. and i know that is the best counter measure. we have the best to get most number to the what about the people who are forced to work and scan factories? foreign investigators feel powerless. mazda legal system is often corrupt arrow and a few others will lucky aid work is on the tie side of the border menace to free them. why they were being transported to another scan factory via thailand. but transfers like this really happened and not every rescue goes to a plan. scam us off with one step ahead of investigate as also because all 4 of these drago to co operate across national borders and the dangers are growing. and
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on the rise as a i office cameras, new avenues for exportation, so we must continue to keep a close eye on them. thanks for watching and next time and stay vigilant. the of the words people have to say, that's why we listen. because every weekend on w music can be destroyed, you can try,
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