Inside the 'modern slavery' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
This episode of Fresh Air features an in-depth interview with Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg about the rise of AI-powered cyber scams, particularly the 'pig butchering' romance scams run from Southeast Asian crime compounds where victims are both the scammed and the enslaved. The epis
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