1360: Scam Compounds | Out of the Loop

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And now fighter jets bombing their offices and compounds. Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy join us today from the front lines. They literally live in the area where these scam compounds are. They've helped extract human trafficking victims because many people are forced to work there. They've filmed destroyed compounds and literally run from drone strikes and security personnel and police and who God knows who else. Today we'll explore how online fraud became a geopolitical war, why the violence gets worse when the money actually stops. And what happens when the mafia starts functioning like a government or vice versa. If you want a full background on scam compounds, human trafficking, grab our other episodes with Lindsay and Nathan. Those are episodes eight thirty three and eleven forty five. We deep dive into how the scams work and the human trafficking element underneath it all. This is an update to a bunch of that. Here we go with Nathan and Lindsay.

So thanks for coming back on the show. I it it's funny, this is kind of a weird start,'cause one, it's super early here and super late there, but you have in We've tried this a few times and you had to get a studio, but Cambodia's not very maybe there's not a lot of studios that you guys can rent at ten PM at night on a weekend, and so you're in your Friend's apartment. after he vacated due to a security threat, which makes me a little worried for you guys, but he leaves and you're like, Oh good, can we use this space to record a podcast? And he's like, I don't think you understand that I left because someone's trying to kill me and you're like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but is it quiet in there? Do you have internet job for somebody else. So like

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