{"id":1303,"date":"2026-06-30T05:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:38:49","slug":"photo-essay-two-victims-on-opposite-sides-of-the-global-scam-industry-seek-to-rebuild-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO ESSAY: Two victims on opposite sides of the global scam industry seek to rebuild their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One thought he was getting to know \u201cEliza\u201d and was robbed of his life savings. The other was trafficked to a scam compound, beaten and forced to become \u201cElla\u201d online. Separated by thousands of miles, Chris Colocousis and Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil inhabited opposite sides of the global cyberscam industry.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1295\">Four days to make victims fall in love: How global scammers use US tech to fleece people<\/a><\/p><p>An <span>AP\/\u201cFRONTLINE\u201d investigation<\/span> has found that American technology is present\u202fall along\u202fthe digital supply chains that connect people like Colocousis and Koorimannil. Most public scrutiny\u202fhas focused on the social media\u202fplatforms\u202fvictims see. But the infrastructure exploited to commit fraud begins much farther upstream, from AI models baked into powerful new tools to optimize workflow and create more perfect fakes, to satellite dishes that enable scammers to evade internet crackdowns, to internet service providers that carry traffic from the lawless borderlands of Myanmar to the phones and computers of millions of victims.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualization\" class=\"wp-image-1297\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dac20c4f7e2295a444ae4ab76091be25-768x723.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dac20c4f7e2295a444ae4ab76091be25-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dac20c4f7e2295a444ae4ab76091be25-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dac20c4f7e2295a444ae4ab76091be25.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though these U.S. tech companies aren\u2019t doing anything illegal themselves, watchdogs say they have the technical capacity to do more to protect against abuse \u2013 but lack the legal, regulatory and business incentives to crack down.<\/p>\n<p>At first, all Colocousis saw was that the woman who reached out to him on Facebook had a New York phone number and said she worked at a well-known financial firm in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualization\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b56d5af9de1d1c67687dfc3d5e8c0e9b-768x723.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b56d5af9de1d1c67687dfc3d5e8c0e9b-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b56d5af9de1d1c67687dfc3d5e8c0e9b-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b56d5af9de1d1c67687dfc3d5e8c0e9b.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEliza\u201d suggested a video call. And there she was \u2013 the same blond beauty as in her Facebook photos. She even had little bags under her eyes. She was too\u202freal\u202fnot to be real.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<!-- AP \"Read More\" embed (place mid-article) -->\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now\u202fColocousis, a divorced man in his 60s, has no idea where \u201cEliza\u201d really is, whether he was talking with her or with ChatGPT\u2013 and even if\u202fshe\u2019s\u202fa she. He does know that the $400,000 he said he \u201cinvested\u201d under Eliza\u2019s guidance is now gone, and with it, the secure retirement he\u2019d spent years working for.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualization\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73e47a7eec6d31f860e2cae13ee69d57-768x723.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73e47a7eec6d31f860e2cae13ee69d57-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73e47a7eec6d31f860e2cae13ee69d57-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73e47a7eec6d31f860e2cae13ee69d57.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think I have a degree of PTSD from it, to be honest with you. I still wake up occasionally in the middle of the night with anxiety where it just all of a sudden hits me,\u201d he said from his home in Massachusetts. \u201cI really never want to leave my house.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Colocousis said he\u2019d planned to retire in a few years but now is going to have to keep working instead and may take out a home equity loan.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1278\">Warming climate, pollution and unplanned growth push Kashmir\u2019s lakes toward disappearance<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualization\" class=\"wp-image-1300\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c0ece196272880a76dbfeacf91d7d33e-768x723.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c0ece196272880a76dbfeacf91d7d33e-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c0ece196272880a76dbfeacf91d7d33e-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c0ece196272880a76dbfeacf91d7d33e.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<!-- AP Morning Wire Newsletter Embed (self-contained) -->\n<div>\n<!-- Red AP Prompt Bar -->\n<div>\n<svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Sign up for Morning Wire:<\/strong>\n    Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.\n  <\/div>\n<form>\n<input\/>\n<div>\n<div>\n<label>Email address<\/label>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<label>\n<input\/>\n<span>\n          By checking this box, you agree to AP&#8217;s\n          Terms of Use\n          and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our\n          Privacy Policy.\n        <\/span>\n<\/label>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMost people react when they find out somebody was scammed, is like, how stupid could you be? Well, I\u2019m an educated guy. You know, what is my flaw in this? My flaw is I was looking for a companionship,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m at peace for now being by myself.\u201d<\/p><p>All Koorimannil, 30, knew was that his computer at the Tai Chang scam compound in Myanmar ran specialized software that enabled him to target some 50,000 victims from\u202fat least\u202f17 countries in a month, according to records he smuggled out to AP.\u202fHis \u201cclients\u201d included\u202fa widowed tailor in Kurdistan, a pastry chef in Turkey, soldiers in Iraq, an engineer in Russia and a building painter in Germany. With the help of security non-profit C4ADS, AP found that the tools Koorimannil used were powered, in part, by American artificial intelligence models.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualization\" class=\"wp-image-1301\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee8da8ccb604e2c6fc0c10233f92049-768x723.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee8da8ccb604e2c6fc0c10233f92049-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee8da8ccb604e2c6fc0c10233f92049-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dee8da8ccb604e2c6fc0c10233f92049.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On a typical shift, Koorimannil said he chatted\u202fwith more than 100 people across dozens of profiles at the same time,\u202fas supervisors prowled among the desks with electric\u202fbatons. He said he was beaten for being bad at\u202fscamming\u202fpeople, and photographs show his body\u202fred\u202fand\u202fswollen with\u202flashes.<\/p><p>\u201cWhen they came near my computer, my hands would shake and sweat,\u201d he told AP in his native Malayalam language\u202ffrom his home in southern India.<\/p><p>At night, he\u202fsaid,\u202fhe\u202fand his best friend curled in the same narrow bunk, too frightened to sleep alone.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"visualization\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/07158aaaafff10d2c6c957059aae07e3-768x723.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/07158aaaafff10d2c6c957059aae07e3-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/07158aaaafff10d2c6c957059aae07e3-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/07158aaaafff10d2c6c957059aae07e3.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Koorimannil said he paid more than $5,000 for his freedom and now works in his family fish business. He sometimes struggles to accept the dimensions of the life he was born to, but ambition cost him too much.<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned to stay hungry and I have learned to be patient,\u201d he said. \u201cI was not like this before. After coming back from Myanmar, I know how to be hungry and patient.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1244\">More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing<\/a><\/p><p>\u2014<\/p><p>This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thought he was getting to know \u201cEliza\u201d and was robbed of his life savings. 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