The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

After our last episode on an online romance scam operating out of Palau we were contacted by Neo Lu, who was trafficked to work in an online scam camp on the Myanmar-Thailand border, the victim of a $US3 trillion global criminal industry. He joins Louisa and Graeme to offer jaw-dropping detail on life inside a scam centre, the mechanics of pig butchering, who benefits from this new form of slavery and how they launder their profits. Image: c/- Yihao Lu, Scamming equipment, Dongmei Camp, 2022 Episode transcripts are available at

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The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam is an episode from The Little Red Podcast by The Little Red Podcast.

This episode is 49:18 long.

This episode was published on Jul 24, 2024.

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