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tv   Shift  Deutsche Welle  May 7, 2024 11:45pm-12:00am CEST

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as to music, fetch the chancellor play out. well was the only one i'm super lucky. music under the sun. starts may 25th on dw, the wait, am i reading this, right? i can follow social media accounts and make over $260.00 in a day. well, it's a scam, of course, but scribes like this, a huge global business, and many scam us, even victims themselves. what topic option? this is aaron. he was taken to me, um, uh, under false pretences and for us to scam people online or via the phone, we'll show you ever the story at the moment. but what exactly is scanning? essentially, things coming in a general form is, is really a way of deception, right? and it's coming anything in particular phones coming or on lines coming is
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a modern way of social engineering attacks where basically are pointing individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and, and making some profit. ok, scam us, pray on our 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, there isn't any and as effectively longer to the money, but in 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. just take free and tailor to each target group. one popular scam is the so called shock called a scam. a pausing is a police officer, do you mind space for a family member allegedly involved in the crime or accident. but the scam took the
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most in just a ton recently. thanks to a i a such an option diesel. um, i mean, cuz that's the game in warehouse. some cases in the west, when mother's received calls from the doses alleged kidnappers through a lot, the mother would hear her daughter's voice in the background saying, mom, my mom, the hosting mean. and of course, the voice was a, i generation caught you in the, someone will have recorded the daughter's voice somewhere else and use a all you to sound like house music, tati. these a, these are also, i'm gamma, just a snippet of a real conversation or voice mail is enough for the a i the takes too. that's a i generated videos of becoming an increasingly attractive for scam us. microsoft on release day. i model boss one, for example, can generate animations from a single photo from say, an instagram account. do some pushups,
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run up and down the stairs. any language 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 their victims. yet they are yeah. as a mazda image for tom is very trusting, when someone gives us just a few pieces of information, you might like the name of someone we know masonry, showed up 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, were often not so aware of that. and then we'll just manage cameras. what from west africa, south, east asia or eastern europe and often target the rich global volumes were the people that targeted 1st like children and seniors. but also people who are lowly
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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 complex is where hundreds of scams were side by side. but in many cases, the people in the so called scam factories, actually victims themselves. having been brought there under false pretences and forced to defraud of us that you end people chose the scale of this more than the form of slavery. credible sources indicate that at least a 120000 people across me and my may be held in situations where they have forced to carry out online scans with estimates in cambodia. similarly, as a $100000.00 of the sites in the region, including allow pedia, the philippines and thailand have all tied being identified as mine,
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countries of destination or transit, where at least tens of thousands of people have been involved, run to was forced into scamming of those against as well for months, she spoke to the w about his experiences, his nightmare. begin on a trip to a job interview in bangkok, thailand we were suppose to go to a hotel that is like maybe 10 minutes away from the airport. but we drove in a different direction 10 minutes turned it to several hours. that's when we realized to be, i know going to bind cold. i was so scared. 8 is hours before arrow and then the other victims reach that destination. they across the river more we and end up at the notorious game factory and known as k. k park. it is here with thousands of people will take into force to
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default others in china, europe, all the was a one of the people behind the k. k pox scam factory is broken, choose peace, believe to be the head of a chinese triad. according to the former, forced labor, as the factory is secured by a board, a god unit from northern myanmar which in turn consists of form a rebels. the victims are 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 meet 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
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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, dw report as those who want to leave all threatened with death or being sold to another factory. one of the methods k, k, park and others can factories force their workers to employees, is using crypt double scams. convincing people to invest in non existent crypto currencies. nora stories taskbar trying to form you connections on line. after a while, this guy, he says, we have this type of control currency. i want to to learn how to currency work. so and, and this person was so kind and she said, i'm going to teach you tripped up currency such as bid cannot populate as an investment. the risk is high and so other potential profits but crypto currencies
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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 invest in the website, you can see your funds there. you can take out the money. this guy must maintain contact with the victims 4 months. does waiting them to invest more as more money and over i thought the website was legitimate. she was convinced she was investing her savings. well, instead of money flowed in to a crypto, wanted a kind of digital account and was at the hands of the process. i wanted to withdraw a couple of $1000.00 and i clicked on withdraw them and this person was, was pushing me to invest more money into into this crypto currency. then the website went offline,
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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 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 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
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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. since the real addresses already taken scam us use 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 profiles, 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
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a very specific on a. so i'll send a hog off the about in a guns. wisdom to onboard come was scanned. most often use professional methods to manipulate the victims today. rely on flattery, sympathy, or time pressure tall to make money. am i with the ceiling stuff? if you have the slightest suspicion of then you should end the conversation or chat as quickly as possible, act order. as 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, few 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 a novice scan factory via thailand. but transfers like this really happen. and not
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every rescue goes to 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 days as our growing and 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 how many of you speak more than 2 languages? at least 2 or more languages. we used to be taught to speak english. why we,
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we can from becky ground of speaking, hey, we have to embrace and mean so, i mean, what do you do you lose you? i just simply by learning a level language, when i speak english, i said, please do requesting this 77 percent. 30 minutes on d w. i don't know why my name is no, mark is my own. i'm a nurse. i fled from the war and cartoon. second. my name is nadia hung down. i was in kit bill and we were attacked and my children were imagines. my name is i fled after and having lost my 2 children and one of my legs. just 3 of 10000000 in volts on sit on global us in 90 minutes on dw the
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