- Young Indonesians applying for tech jobs via Facebook and Telegram are trafficked to scam farms.
- Scammers use deepfakes, voice clones, and other technologies to dupe victims around the world.
- Americans alone lost $12.5 billion last year, mostly to investment scams.
Young Indonesians are increasingly falling for fraudulent job ads on Telegram, Facebook, and other social media and getting trafficked to scam farms in Southeast Asia, former scammers and cybersecurity experts told Rest of World. There, they learn to use AI-generated deepfakes, voice clones, large language models, and other technologies to con people into parting with their life savings.
