International police body Interpol says scam centers that use human trafficking victims to carry out their crimes have gone global. Once limited to Southeast Asia, the criminal model is spreading — and uses AI.
Human trafficking-fueled scam centers have significantly expanded their operations worldwide, according to a crime trend update released on Monday by the international police agency Interpol.
Hubs where trafficking victims are forced to take part in online fraud first emerged in a few Southeast Asian nations, but investigators are now also uncovering similar fraud centers in other regions.
Damn now I gotta respectfully decline instead of wasting their time and insulting them.
This happened an hour after I read the article.
Interesting. Any response to that last question? I thought those were bots all this time!
None, and it’s been many many hours now. But that’s going to be my go to approach from now on.
The provenance of the image on that article is here. Those are freed captives.
I would like to point out that a huge proportion of the people in that picture are men.
