||A dark mirror of the global outsourcing industry

We spoke to Gavesh and five other workers from inside the scam industry, as well as anti-trafficking experts and technology specialists. Their testimony reveals how global companies, including American social media and dating apps and international cryptocurrency and messaging platforms, have given the fraud business the means to become industrialized. By the same token, it is Big Tech that may hold the key to breaking up the scam syndicates—if only these companies can be persuaded or compelled to act. fromInside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there[MIT Technology Review]posted bychavenetat 1:37 AM -8 comments