Cataleya
Appearances
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
So in a scamming company, there are two kinds of people. The one that's spamming and the one that is customer service. So in spamming, you're the one who will get clients from different kinds of social medias. You will create different kinds of accounts, multiple accounts in WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, everything.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
They want me to go into customer service because I can talk. But I acted fool and stupid in front of them. So they don't get me and they don't like me.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
This guy was from Europe. And that guy have a son that have leukemia. I feel so pity with him. So what I did is I sneak out on the WhatsApp, on his WhatsApp number. And I message him. I didn't message him. I call him. Because on WhatsApp, maybe he will screenshot that. And then he will send, right? So I called him. Because he invested jillion, like millions. He invested like thousands.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
He sell his car, he sell his house, he sell everything to invest. Like, yeah. And he have a leukemia. He has a son who have a leukemia. He's crying. Like he don't have, I don't have it really. I don't have a money. I don't have money now.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
So what I did is I get his number. I called him. I told him, please listen. I said, please listen to me. I just wanted to help you. Stop. I said, stop it. Stop it. I explained to him. And I am so lucky because on the next day, he blocked the scamming model. And he listened because I'm scared because maybe he will chat it, right?
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
Then that guy would stop. And then a few weeks ago, he said, I was so happy to meet you.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
sometimes when you're sleeping you can hear screams screaming of Chinese women they're torturing their Chinese co-fellow Chinese do you know like a hotel right do you know the hotel there's a lot of room in the hallway we live something we live on something like that there's a lot of doors doors like facing each other and there's a little hole on the door right you can take people yeah
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
I hear a scream on the other door, in front of her door. But I know that they're torturing the Chinese woman, but I want to see. I want to see in my own eyes, right? So I peek on that hole. I see the Chinese woman. There's no clothes and everything. Three Chinese big mans slapping him and punching him. And that girl was screaming out her lungs.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
Like asking, not asking for help, but asking them to stop because no one is helping. And there are a lot of Chinese men circling him, her. And I don't, I cannot help. I got scared. I go inside the room. Every day you will hear something like that. And it really get it in your brain. Like it will drive you crazy, really.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
My dad, he's the one who always wanted to become a policeman. So he wanted to protect us like he could. But unfortunately, father just passed away. And so I was trying to get on track.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
So we were working like for four months or five months, something like that, on the first company that I worked. So we bond together, we drink together, and then we hang out. So her boyfriend reached out to me, like, Hey, I wanted your help. So I was going to propose on her in Thailand. So if you want, you can help me and everything is free.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
I was so excited for them because I know them for a long time. We're friends, right? And I didn't think anything that they will put me in danger because we are Filipinos. And I just bring like three clothes on me, like three pairs because it's going to be like a three days vacation, right?
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
So when we got in the airport, we were very excited. They were talking about the places we will go there in Thailand and something like that. But when we arrived in Thailand, I got shocked because we were living separately in the hotel. The hotel they will stay in is different from the hotel that I'm going to stay in.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
I asked everything about the details, but they stopped answering me anything. And the driver was so, so like, the Thailand driver, so, so strict. She don't want me to ask so much questions to the other Filipinos.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
So when we are traveling hours for hours for hours, and we don't stop. And the bad thing is I don't have a Wi-Fi on my phone because I don't have a SIM card. So I cannot see a Google map where I am.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
When I go out, I fight with them already. I curse them and everything. What the fuck? Like, why are you here? Then they told me, come down. The office is new. They will give you a good salary. What the fuck? I don't want a job. I have a job in the Philippines. Then she told me... You don't have the choice.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
The Chinese boss paid already on your... He's the one who paid all your tickets and everything. I was crying already and everything. And then I was so shocked. I didn't know what to do. Then she told me, just work there, just work. I cried and cried and I swear to God, I did everything to fight back. But... I sit down, I think, because I don't know where I am. And there is no houses on the road.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
What am I going to do? And the driver got my passport already. He got my passport so I don't have the access, right? So I think that if I resist, I will get killed. If I think, I will survive.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
Because a lot of people ask me, why don't you go out? Why don't you ask help? Because I see that the officers there are getting money to them. They knew what is happening. Right? You understand?
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
So we are staying at K-25 and the compound was so big. It's really big. There's a canteen, there's a clinic, there's a bar, there's a restaurant, there's a field. We're inside the Burmese military base. It is the training camp of the Burmese military. So it will not get caught.
SCAMMERLAND
Inside the Gross Business of Scamming
I asked them, why? Why me? Why you bring us? Because you're a unique one. Because you can easily learn something. Because we think that you're a strong one. You can understand. No, I don't understand. I don't understand right now, I said. Because this is not a joke. I have a son. Right? I have a son. I'm begging and crying because it is not the life that I want.