He said yes to an IT job. He ended up enslaved in a scam compound.
Journalist Andy Greenberg received a cryptic email from a whistleblower known as Red Bull, a computer engineer trapped inside a crypto scam compound in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle, who exposed the inner workings of 'pig butchering' scams — where romance is weaponized to steal million
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