The Cyber Human Trafficking Edition

On crime, borders, and exploitation

Colin here. We’re all familiar with online, phone, and text-based scams. Most of them are easy to spot, but not a lot of thought goes into the human on the other end of the equation. That’s because our mind first jumps to economic motives—scammers looking for a leg up in a situation where it is hard to have a job. But increasingly, the scammers are bein…