“I was taught how to hit on them for about three or four days. After being friends for about a week, you go in for the ‘kill’.”
Poom-Jai*, 17, is talking about his job. Over several months, the Thai teenager was trained to lure, befriend and defraud lonely people online, with brutal efficiency.
“I wondered when I scammed them, would they become penniless, would they face hardship.”
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