CNN did this interactive on slaves in a compound on the Thai-Myanmar border where they send messages on WhatsApp trying to hook unsuspecting victims into thinking they can earn millions on crypto. They send photos of beautiful Chinese women living in luxury. The woman convinces the suspect to download a crypto trading app and gets them to put small money in at first and show them huge gains. They link their checking account and eventually drain it. The app shows them big profits. It looks legitimate until they try to transfer money back into their checking account and then they are locked out. Guys would be better off signing up for OnlyFans then sending money to a picture of a hot women who is chatting with you on WhatsApp. How dumb can people be.
CY’s phone lit up with a Whatsapp message. It was Jessica, a beautiful Chinese-American woman who introduced herself as an old colleague. CY didn’t remember meeting her but she seemed kind and he responded anyway.
They began chatting in October 2021 and over the next few weeks built a close friendship. Jessica shared photos of her luxurious lifestyle in New York and CY talked about the pain of caring for his dying father in the San Francisco Bay Area where he lives. “She was always there to provide comfort, compassion,” he told CNN.
A few weeks into their friendship, Jessica taught CY how to invest in cryptocurrency to help pay for his father’s care. The initial profits were astonishing, and CY believed he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, he kept investing until one day he got locked out of his account. More than a million dollars was gone.
“What the heck happened? What did I do?” he recalled thinking.
Panicking, he called Jessica for help. But Jessica had disappeared.
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CY’s phone lit up with a Whatsapp message. It was Jessica, a beautiful Chinese-American woman who introduced herself as an old colleague. CY didn’t remember meeting her but she seemed kind and he responded anyway.
They began chatting in October 2021 and over the next few weeks built a close friendship. Jessica shared photos of her luxurious lifestyle in New York and CY talked about the pain of caring for his dying father in the San Francisco Bay Area where he lives. “She was always there to provide comfort, compassion,” he told CNN.
A few weeks into their friendship, Jessica taught CY how to invest in cryptocurrency to help pay for his father’s care. The initial profits were astonishing, and CY believed he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, he kept investing until one day he got locked out of his account. More than a million dollars was gone.
“What the heck happened? What did I do?” he recalled thinking.
Panicking, he called Jessica for help. But Jessica had disappeared.
Billion-dollar scam
A sophisticated criminal network is using modern day slaves to con thousands of Americans out of their life savings
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