Here's our 25-min video news-documentary version of the story of Red Bull, the whistleblower who leaked me the secrets of a crypto scam compound while trapped as a forced laborer inside it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcN... Hope you'll watch and consider the immense scale of this global crisis.

I Escaped Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery | Hacklab | WIRED

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Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Thank you for sharing this. Frankl’s work speaks powerfully about how meaning and hope shape human resilience. I appreciate you making that connection.

Sonans@sojaya.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Bosses seemed to depend largely on the fear and despair of Red Bull’s fellow trafficking victims—most of whom had, it seemed to him, lost all hope of resistance” I finally read Viktor Frankl’s Mans search for meaning and this part stood out. Viktor and Red Bull affirm this attitude

This wasn’t easy to share, but it mattered. Thanks to WIRED for documenting what I witnessed. It shows what’s happening behind online scam operations.

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

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