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Posing as ‘Alicia,’ This Man Scammed Hundreds Online. He Was Also a Victim.
A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture
By Feliz Solomon / WSJ
MAE SOT, Thailand—In late December, Guracha Bersha helped lead a small but brazen rebellion.
He’d been enslaved for 16 months in a twisted new criminal empire in which Chinese gangsters traffic people from around the world, often to remote and lawless parts of Southeast Asia, and force them to sit at computers all day scamming strangers online. The cyber frauds they’re forced to commit are called pig butchering, named for the way the perpetrators fatten up their victims by gaining their trust before taking their money and cutting them loose.
Behind the scenes, the scammers are victims too.
At the time of the uprising, his life was like an episode of the dystopian TV show “Black Mirror.” The 41-year-old IT professional from Ethiopia, who goes by the nickname Billy, was trapped in a criminal enclave in Myanmar, where his captors made him assume the fake online alter ego of a rich Singaporean woman they called Alicia. He had to memorize a manual on how to seduce men online and manipulate them into pouring their money into bogus investments.
After weeks of secret planning late last year, Billy and others in his dormitory went on strike. Punishment was swift. Billy said he was handcuffed and hung by his wrists for about a week where the other captives could see him suffering. Then he said he was taken to an unlit bathroom stall and tortured. For another week, his captors beat him and said he’d have to scrounge up $7,000 if he wanted to be freed.
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