Cezary Podkul
@cezaryp.bsky.social
Investigative reporter in Hong Kong working on "The Big Trace" - a forthcoming book from @littlebrown.bsky.social about #pigbutcheringscams and modern #slavery
https://www.thebigtrace.com/
https://www.thebigtrace.com/
Join us at @fcchk.bsky.social next Monday for a club lunch with Ivan Franceschini and Ling Li, two of the co-authors of SCAM, a new book about Southeast Asia's #cybercrime compounds and what they learned from years of research on this important topic. Details ⬇️
www.fcchk.org/event/club-l...
www.fcchk.org/event/club-l...
Club Lunch: Book Talk – SCAM: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds (2025)
www.fcchk.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Join us at @fcchk.bsky.social next Monday for a club lunch with Ivan Franceschini and Ling Li, two of the co-authors of SCAM, a new book about Southeast Asia's #cybercrime compounds and what they learned from years of research on this important topic. Details ⬇️
www.fcchk.org/event/club-l...
www.fcchk.org/event/club-l...
1/ You’ve probably gotten random texts and DMs from strangers looking to befriend you. It's likely just a stealth opener to a "pig-butchering" scam but it's also a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/pig-...
www.propublica.org/article/pig-...
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.
www.propublica.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
1/ You’ve probably gotten random texts and DMs from strangers looking to befriend you. It's likely just a stealth opener to a "pig-butchering" scam but it's also a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/pig-...
www.propublica.org/article/pig-...
Hello @bsky.app users! 👋 My first post here, just writing to introduce myself 🧵
I'm @cezaryp.bsky.social and I'm an investigative reporter based in Hong Kong
For the last few years, I've been covering #cybercrime and I am now working on a book about #pigbutchering scams 👇
www.thebigtrace.com
I'm @cezaryp.bsky.social and I'm an investigative reporter based in Hong Kong
For the last few years, I've been covering #cybercrime and I am now working on a book about #pigbutchering scams 👇
www.thebigtrace.com
The Big Trace: Scams, Slavery and the Global Hunt for Justice
The story of an unlikely group of fraud victims and advocates who banded together to expose a sinister, multi-billion-dollar criminal operation that began scamming unsuspecting Americans during the pa...
www.thebigtrace.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hello @bsky.app users! 👋 My first post here, just writing to introduce myself 🧵
I'm @cezaryp.bsky.social and I'm an investigative reporter based in Hong Kong
For the last few years, I've been covering #cybercrime and I am now working on a book about #pigbutchering scams 👇
www.thebigtrace.com
I'm @cezaryp.bsky.social and I'm an investigative reporter based in Hong Kong
For the last few years, I've been covering #cybercrime and I am now working on a book about #pigbutchering scams 👇
www.thebigtrace.com