4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
0:13.1 | I know this. |
0:15.1 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.3 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | Eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:24.3 | Today, we're hearing a story about how one man started what could have been an ordinary tech company selling privacy-focused phones, but ended up selling those devices to serious organized criminals, including the Sinaloa cartel. |
0:38.6 | With internal company documents, FBI files, and sources in the firm itself, here's our writer, |
0:45.7 | Joseph Cox, who's been investigating the company called Phantom Secure for the past two years. |
0:51.4 | I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber. |
1:01.4 | Thank you. the past two years. I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber. Everyone crammed into the Las Vegas Hotel Suite was asleep except for Vince Ramos. |
1:06.1 | The Wynn luxury hotel, with his indoor gardens, seafood restaurants, and extravagant shopping, had been |
1:12.1 | this group's world for the past few days, with law enforcement officials from the US, Canada, and |
1:17.1 | Australia, grilling Ramos. Four or five officials lay down after another session of questioning |
1:22.5 | their suspect. Ramos had short breaks to see his wife and daughter, who were staying in their own room nearby. |
1:30.0 | Fearing he wouldn't be able to see his family if he didn't do so, Ramosz spoke at length with the agents. |
1:35.0 | Ramos looked like a ghost during those breaks when his family saw him. |
1:38.6 | His trip to Vegas, though, had been a setup. |
1:41.7 | He travelled to meet an associate as part of his multi-million dollar business |
1:45.1 | of selling encrypted phones under the brand name Phantom Secure. Phantom had glitzy marketing. |
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