International police body Interpol says scam centers that use human trafficking victims to carry out their crimes have gone global. Once limited to Southeast Asia, the criminal model is spreading — and uses AI.
Human trafficking-fueled scam centers have significantly expanded their operations worldwide, according to a crime trend update released on Monday by the international police agency Interpol.
Hubs where trafficking victims are forced to take part in online fraud first emerged in a few Southeast Asian nations, but investigators are now also uncovering similar fraud centers in other regions.
Damn now I gotta respectfully decline instead of wasting their time and insulting them.
This happened an hour after I read the article.
Interesting. Any response to that last question? I thought those were bots all this time!
Yeah honestly this has been one of my takeaways too, after hearing about these awful things a while back.
You never know what’s going on in the life of a stranger on the other end of a phone call, so respect and politeness is the best we can offer.
The provenance of the image on that article is here. Those are freed captives.
I would like to point out that a huge proportion of the people in that picture are men.
Those are freed captives.
It says so in the article 👍
I would like to point out that a huge proportion of the people in that picture are men.
Why?
Oh wow, I missed the video also linked in that article. Oops!
Why?
Because I am sure that lots of people read “human trafficking” and think that it primarily affects women, or is a “women’s issue”, and by extension, assume that human trafficking has little impact on men. That opens up a whole “men vs women” can of worms, frames women as victims and men as perpetrators.
