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It used to be a scam compound as large as a small country. Here's what remains of KK Park these days. Photo essay by @Cezary for the forthcoming @thebigtrace book: buttondown.com/Cezary/archive…

1/ You’ve probably gotten random texts and DMs from strangers looking to befriend you. It's likely just a stealth opener to a "pig-butchering" scam but it's also a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks 🧵 propublica.org/article/pig-bu…

New @INTERPOL_HQ report summarizes the globalization of online fraud centers and #humantrafficking for forced online scam labor. Key take-aways👇 interpol.int/News-and-Event…

Important new report from @amnesty painstakingly documents how Cambodia's government allows slavery and torture to flourish inside hellish scamming compounds amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

New edition of @TheBigTrace newsletter: It's not just crypto. Foreign scammers are also using U.S. banks to fleece Americans buttondown.com/Cezary/archive…

If you've heard about President Trump's effort to shut the United States Institute of Peace, you should know USIP has done some of the most in-depth research on the rise of scam-linked human trafficking emanating out of Southeast Asia. Their work is vital: usip.org/publications/2…

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What's happening on the Thai-Myanmar border? Frontline updates from my latest reporting trip for @thebigtrace⬇️ buttondown.com/Cezary/archive…

I can’t wait to tell you more about their stories in @TheBigTrace. You can find more information here about my book and subscribe to The Big Trace Newsletter: thebigtrace.com

This aspect of #pigbutchering scams doesn’t get much notice. But it gives me great hope that someday their efforts will add up to something big and we’ll start to tackle Southeast Asia’s #scamdemic.

Some reflections from my first reporting trip of the year for @TheBigTrace: A growing community of selfless activists are taking it upon themselves to tackle Southeast Asia’s growing fraud problem buttondown.com/Cezary/archive…

New edition of @TheBigTrace newsletter, with some reflections from a recent reporting trip along the Thai-Myanmar border where, at least for now, crime does pay buttondown.com/Cezary/archive…

Thank you everyone who helped me learn as much as I could about #pigbutcheringscams and fraud-linked #humantrafficking, which have combined into a unique global threat that demands global attention. I’ll do my part by writing “The Big Trace” – a forthcoming book from @littlebrown