![]() I texted (on her behalf) that I was ‘having dinner’. “A customer texted a Thai model asking what she was doing. Though the Chinese nationals among the workers bore the brunt of these penalties, Stephen says he too was punished once. There were punishments, too, if they got things wrong at work, says Stephen, adding that he had heard of workers being given electric shocks. ![]() We were supposed to chat with at least 40 people a day,” he said, adding that they worked 15 to 16 hours a day. At one point, we were given 3,000 Indian VIP contacts - their names and cellphone numbers - whom we had to target. After we did this for about 15-20 days, we would get a sense of the customer’s tastes, habits and financial details. She would turn on the camera on request while we chatted with the clients. “We would approach the client and sit with a model from Thailand. We started targeting our potential prey through Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and all sorts of social media.”īesides financial scams, the workers were given paid versions of prominent dating apps, he said. ![]() “There was a training session to begin with. ![]() This continued until an Uzbekistan national, fluent in Chinese and English, joined them as translator.Īccording to Stephen, the group was mainly engaged in crypto scams. “We would type out our queries in English and get it translated to Chinese. He says that their workplace had people from different nationalities - China, Russia, Thailand, Pakistan, Uzbekistan - but since around 60 per cent of workers and managers were Chinese, Indians communicated with them via the Telegram app. ![]()
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