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The Current powered by Kim Komando

Trapped in a scam factory

The Current powered by Kim Komando

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Technology, Tech News

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

WIRED senior correspondent Andy Greenberg got a late-night email from inside a Southeast Asian compound. The message: “I am a computer engineer being forced to work here. I want to help shut this down.” What happened next will blow your mind. Hear my convo with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So, Andrew, I have to tell you, I read this article over in Wired Magazine.

0:40.8

Okay. Or wired.com, I should say. And it was just fascinating to me, because how many

0:47.8

phone calls do you think that we've gotten here on the show over the years about somebody who was getting pig butchered.

0:57.6

Oh, I mean, this is, there was a peak where it was once a week. Now I think maybe we're down to three

1:01.8

times a month. And how many times when we talk to these people, and like one guy sits in the

1:09.3

sits in the top of my head right now where they

1:12.1

don't want to believe that this is happening to them of course and it's all just what i hear when

1:18.6

they call and tell us their stories is they are so pushed towards greed that they think there's this

1:25.0

huge payoff in the end they don't care what they're risking yeah i mean

1:28.8

there was that what was that one guy like 500 000 yeah 800 000 dollars 800 that was a stranger he

1:36.8

met on facebook okay another one was a half a million dollars i remember there was that one the one guy

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