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323. The Pig Butchering Romance Scam

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Pig Butchering already sounds bad as it is, but you’ll be surprised by the real meaning of it being even worse! Journalist and documentarist Lindsey Kennedy did a fascinating investigation on the world of scams - and it’s scary, and it’s dangerous. #scams #humantraffic #china Lindsey’s link: https://twitter.com/LindsAKennedy Andrew Gold links: http://YouTube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok https://andrewgold.locals.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's that time.

0:03.0

Guess what's brewing at Starbucks?

0:05.0

You already know.

0:07.0

A dash of autumn, hints of spice

0:10.0

with a twist of chai and pumpkin cream cold foam.

0:13.3

Wait, is that the?

0:14.5

Yeah, it's the new pumpkin cream ice-chai tea latte.

0:18.5

For hot, iced and all things pumpkin spice,

0:22.3

no one does it better than Starbucks. Subject to availability

0:27.0

while stocks lost.

0:28.0

We'd been sort of like trying to get into this place for a while.

0:32.6

So we kind of climbed over the fences and got through a broken window and had a look inside and

0:37.4

quite clearly the torture rooms, lots of signs that the ways people were being electrocuted,

0:41.6

a lot of these places are high rises and people jump out of windows or fall all the time.

0:47.1

Today on On the Edge with Andrew Gold, we're going to be talking about the pig butchering romance scams.

0:53.5

That sounds pretty scary, pig butchering,

0:55.4

but Lindsay Kennedy is the investigative journalist

0:58.2

out of Cambodia, talking from Cambodia

1:01.2

where she is stationed to discuss the pig butchering romance scams.

1:06.0

I mean, it's one of the most horrific things that I've ever gone into, so I suppose I should warn you of that in case you're in the car with your kids or whatever it might be.

1:14.8

She does a fantastic job of explaining.

1:17.0

Oh, okay, well, I'll give a little rundown.

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