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The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy

siggy47

I am ok with SaaS - Software as a Service. But PBaaS? - Pig Butchering as a Service? This is a new low. I am aware of compounds along the Thai-Burmese border, which "wild west" does not begin to describe, where people are literally enslaved against their will and forced by threat of torture to scam people 18 hours a day.
[6 Moroccans Freed from Myanmar Scam Ring](https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/six-moroccans-freed-from-myanmar-scam-ring-after-paying-ransom-many-still-captive/ar-BB1pljyH)
[400 scam farms in SE Asia](https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151886)
[Thai police arrest scammer gang](https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/07/09/from-hr-to-human-trafficking-thai-police-arrest-scammer-gang/)

And the news releases go on and on.

My WhatsApp acct gets hammered with "job offers" that smell exactly like a setup for this. Some evil shit. Be careful out there.