Massive Takedown Exposes Slavery and Violence Behind Scam Calls
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
A huge scam network in Asia was recently taken down. It had been stealing billions from American victims, while also using slave labor, extortion, and beatings as a form of control.
We’ll discuss this topic and others, in this episode of “Crossroads.”
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| 0:00.0 | A huge Chinese-link scam network that was stealing billions of dollars from Americans has now been taken down. |
| 0:07.0 | I'll be going into how they use slave labor, extortion, and beatings as a form of control. |
| 0:13.0 | And speaking of Chinese scammers and the Chinese Communist Party, it also turns out |
| 0:18.0 | hundreds of American universities have actually been working with the |
| 0:22.4 | CCP, including with the regime's military. |
| 0:26.5 | And on another topic, conservatives who support Trump were being spied on. |
| 0:30.2 | A new report shows that Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data on Magnus supporters, and these were linked to the investigations |
| 0:39.3 | into January 6th. I'll be going to these topics a lot more today. I'm the Epic Time Senior |
| 0:44.9 | Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome to Crossroads. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, like first off, a huge Chinese spy network has just been taken down. |
| 1:03.0 | This was transnational all over the world, including right here in the US. |
| 1:07.0 | They were operating out of Cambodia, but that was just the headquarters. |
| 1:11.6 | Now, this had been stealing billions of dollars from American victims while also using slaves, |
| 1:16.6 | extortion, human trafficking, and beatings not to the point of death, but almost as a form of control. |
| 1:25.6 | Treasury Department says this. |
| 1:32.2 | It says today, the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, in close coordination with the United Kingdom's foreign Commonwealth, |
| 1:38.1 | the U.K., and Development Office, took complementary actions, meaning they worked together, |
| 1:43.8 | against criminal networks responsible |
| 1:45.5 | for targeting citizens of the United States and other allied nations through online scams |
| 1:51.8 | and the laundering of stolen funds. Anybody who's been getting these constant phone calls, |
| 1:57.8 | scam calls from all corners of the world, you might have been targeted |
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