The Facebook Scam Supply Chain — Part 2
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The Facebook Scam Supply Chain — Part 2
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The scam doesn’t end when an ad reaches your feed. That’s where the supply chain begins.
In Part 2 of Interconnected, Carl Kim goes inside the industrial operations behind online fraud—vast scam compounds where workers are recruited, trafficked, or held against their will and forced to target victims around the world.
These operations don’t work alone. They depend on social media platforms, digital payment systems, encrypted messaging apps, telecom networks—and even American satellite infrastructure—to keep the pipeline running.
We trace the journey from the compound to the screen: how strangers are trained to build trust, how victims are selected, and how billions flow through a system designed to make fraud feel personal.
The scammers may be the ones sending the messages. But the machine is much bigger than the person on the other end.