Anybody ever gotten the give the cartel money or they will kill your family scam.

Best money I ever spent.

They frick people out of money and get away with it.

Send them a dick pic back with just the caption "Thoughts?"

Still waiting for you to pay me baw. Chop chop!

They always hang up when I ask if they can verify they have the correct contact information for my wife.

Had a buddy that got a call on a Friday afternoon from the Sherif's department ( the number checked out) and the guy said he was a detective and would be out that evening to arrest him because he missed a summons to sit on a grand jury. Then proceeded to say the fine for missing the jury duty was $3,500 and to avoid spending the weekend in jail it needed to be paid immediately. He smelled a rat and had them on hold when he contacted the SD and was told it is a scam. A lot of elderly people get taken in by this it's so convincing.

Yea I reported it as junk. The pics I got were the same ones other people have reported with the scam.

People are fricking scum.

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Do people in India, China, etc, go to school or take classes on how to scam Westerners? It’s like an entire industry over there it seems.

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They actually use slave labor to do it, especially the pig butchering schemes.

ETA: This is from February of this year:

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MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them say the unprecedented number is straining the resources of Thailand just across the border and leading to delays.

The crackdown coordinated among Thailand, Myanmar and China follows Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s visit to Beijing this month, where she told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Thailand would act against the scam networks that have drawn in hundreds of thousands of people.

They are often lured under false pretenses to work in scam centers in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, where they financially exploit people around the world through false romances, bogus investment pitches and illegal gambling schemes.

Many find themselves trapped in virtual slavery.

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And a follow up article

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The trapped people, some of whom are highly educated and fluent in English, were initially lured to Thailand with promises of lucrative office jobs, only to find themselves locked in buildings where they describe being forced to sit at computers up to 16 hours a day running scams. Refusing to work could bring beatings, starvation and electric shocks.

“Your passport is confiscated, you cannot go outside and everything is like hell, a living hell,” a trapped Pakistani man told The Associated Press.

Cyber scams run from compounds have flourished during the pandemic, targeting people around the world. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes estimates that between $18 billion and $37 billion was lost in Asia alone in 2023, with minimal government action against the criminal industry’s spread.

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