“They don’t ******* withdraw it” - Scam Call Centres in Ukraine

Scam call centres are a blight on the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to have any dealings with them. They come to you with promises of a short cut to wealth, to fix a non-existent issue with your computer, claiming to be from a charity, threatening you with arrest for unpaid taxes.There are 70 million of these phone calls worldwide every day and they generate billions of dollars each year. Organized crime is very much a part of this industry from Mexico to India and from the Philippines to Ukraine. In this episode we delve into the hundreds, possibly thousands of scam call centres based in Ukraine, where investment scams are mainly targeting Russians.Links:Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized CrimePORT IN A STORM: Organized crime in Odesa since the Russian invasionNew front lines: Organized criminal economies in Ukraine in 2022Global Organized Crime IndexAdditional Reading:  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/katie-investigates/father-attempted-suicide-crypto-fraudsters-tricked-144k/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36108762https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-22/ukraine-s-economy-grows-year-on-year-first-time-since-war-beganhttps://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/30/western-lenders-may-regret-forcing-ukraine-to-turn-to-the-imfhttps://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/latvia-and-lithuania-detain-108-over-multi-million-euro-call-centre-scamhttps://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20100609/midtown-west-hells-kitchen/fbi-raids-suspected-mafia-boiler-rooms-midtown/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6928696https://www.occrp.org/en/fraud-factory/trail-of-broken-lives-leads-to-kyiv-call-centerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65038949https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/fraudfactory/https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/bulgarian-authorities-take-down-online-investment-scam-responsible-for-losses-of-more-eur-10-millionhttps://www.epravda.com.ua/publications/2023/03/24/698383/https://twitter.com/i/status/1606340479196479488https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-scammed-torching-kremlin-offices-cars-2023-4?r=US&IR=Thttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66440752https://t.me/mashmoyka/11725https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-scammed-torching-kremlin-offices-cars-2023-4?r=US&IR=Thttps://t.me/url_mash/4742https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-scammed-torching-kremlin-offices-cars-2023-4?r=US&IR=Thttps://www.interfax-russia.ru/moscow/main/fsb-preduprezhdaet-moskvichey-o-moshennikah-sklonyayushchih-k-perevodu-deneg-i-podzhogamhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66440752https://t.me/rabota_vakansii_dnepr0/10https://lawrange.net/en/services/lawyer-for-fraud-in-ukraine-under-article-190-of-the-criminal-code-of-ukraine/https://ruscrime.com/breaking-through-potential-victims-conversation-scenarios-and-tricks-of-telephone-crooks-from-ukrainian-call-centers/https://crime-ua.com/node/30638https://en.fromheartua.charity/ua/statshttps://incident.obozrevatel.com/crime/organizator-narkosindikata-pri-podderzhke-fsb-razvernulsya-v-ukraine-on-v-rozyiske-no-rulit-iz-za-granitsyi.htmhttps://censor.net/ru/news/3434694/sluga_naroda_seminskiyi_otritsaet_prichastnost_k_rossiyiskomu_kolltsentru_posle_obvi