Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Scams

Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry (globalchinapulse.net)
Jingjing invited me to her office and asked me to wait for her to finish work before we headed out to dinner together.[1] At the time, she was working in a third-party payment company—what, in the jargon of the money-laundering industry, is known as a ‘gateway’ (通道, tongdao). Like another similar enterprise I had previously visited, their premises was in a dozen hotel rooms above a casino in Sihanoukville that were rented monthly.
'She Hooked Me': How an Online Scam Cost a Senior Citizen His Life's Savings (wsj.com)