Four days to make victims fall in love: How global scammers use US tech to fleece people

Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked into scamming, looks out from the window of his CM Fisheries office before starting the day, in Sulthan Bathery in the southern state of Kerala, India, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love.

And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella. On a typical shift, he said, he chatted with more than 100 people across dozens of profiles at the same time, as supervisors prowled among the desks with electric batons.

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