michael roberts runs rexxfield, a cybersecurity firm specialising in disrupting cyber crime and has been working on pig butchering scams. i asked him how unusual this type of scam was. it is an interesting paradox because you do not know who to root for, if the slaves who are running the scams successfully scam don t successfully scam the victims in the west financially, they are punished. but if they fail, we have, we root for the financial victims in the west because they didn t lose money. we need to look beyond the victims at both ends at the sociopaths at the top of the scams. tell us more about how you are trying to disrupt these scammers, the people at the top who are exploiting both the scammers they have under their control as well as the victims around the world. our model is based on disrupting at the beginning, at the source of the scam. we are trying to bring
refuse to give them who i actually am. after four months in captivity, deedee managed to escape and make it back home to china. we approached the owner of the compound where deedee was being held for comment, but he did not respond. hundreds of gangs continue to carry out the pig butchering scam from compounds across south east asia, targeting people all over the world. i m joined now by michael roberts. he runs rexxfield, a cybersecurity firm specialising in disrupting cyber crime and has been working on pig butchering scams. thank you very much for your time today. it is an extraordinary name which grabs the attention. a horrific crime. behind this