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🗓️ 30 January 2025
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Jim joined by his colleague and friend Ret. FBI SA Maureen O'Connell as they discuss the increase in Cyber Romance Fraud due to AI
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City |
0:17.4 | Prosecutor and Writer Producer of Criminal Minds and Bluebeard on Audible. |
0:21.7 | And with me today is a special guest that always remains anonymous. |
0:27.8 | And that is... |
0:29.1 | Mr. Smith, feels good to be back, Jim. |
0:32.0 | And what is your specialty? |
0:34.9 | I am a cybersecurity analyst and information technologists. |
0:38.3 | And don't you know a thing or two about hacking as well? |
0:42.3 | I won't say that on record, but yes, I do. |
0:45.3 | All right. |
0:46.3 | So today we're going to be drawing upon your experiences to talk about a phenomenon, a horrific thing that's been going on, and that is people have |
0:58.8 | been lured from China, from Africa, from all over the world to Thailand, for business |
1:07.9 | opportunities, for high-paying jobs, for, you know, exceptional experiences, things like that. |
1:15.7 | And as soon as they get picked up at the airport, they get driven right across the border into Myanmar. |
1:24.3 | And they are put into a compound which has high walls around its security |
1:30.3 | fencing and armed guards and they may even be government guards but these people are then |
1:39.9 | kept there for days, weeks, months, even years. And this is not a handful of people. This is |
1:48.6 | thousands of people, right? Yes. What we know of currently. Yeah. And the only reason, |
1:55.5 | we've talked about this before on real crime profile and best case, worst case. The fact is that this has been going on for a long time. |
2:04.0 | Only it's in Myanmar. |
2:05.9 | And Myanmar is going through all sorts of political turmoil. |
2:11.0 | And China is kind of backing the leadership there, |
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