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A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarded compounds in Southeast Asia, a new UN human rights report has found.

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And in the west, we make monetized content exploiting them, making them perform like circus animals, and feel justified doing so because they're scammers.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm referring to "scambait" content, Kitboga is probably the best known scambait content creator

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You call that "exploiting them"? The glitter bombs on the money mules is also exploitation?

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you read the article this comment is on?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, what does that have to do with it? We have the security footage too? They are not some poor bastards like in the article here. They work as fake businesses doing scam shit, then clock out and go home.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Of course they're poor bastards, people work as scammers out of desperation, not because it provides great job satisfaction.

I'm not trying to shame you for enjoying scambaiting content, I get it, but it does feel exploitative to me, personally, but I respect your differing opinion.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They make a shit ton of money. Didn't he even get there actual payout of one of the scam centers? Like WAY above average.