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The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

Update: 2024-07-24

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After our last episode on an online romance scam operating out of Palau we were contacted by Neo Lu, who was trafficked to work in an online scam camp on the Myanmar-Thailand border, the victim of a $US3 trillion global criminal industry. He joins Louisa and Graeme to offer jaw-dropping detail on life inside a scam centre, the mechanics of pig butchering, who benefits from this new form of slavery and how they launder their profits.

Image: c/- Yihao Lu, Scamming equipment, Dongmei Camp, 2022

Episode transcripts are available at https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/

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The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim