SCAMMERLAND

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• Small Q’s Escape and the Fight to End Forced Scamming

  April 14, 2025 · 28 min

  After six harrowing months in slavery, Small Q finally breaks free. A sweeping international effort helps him return to Uganda—but thousands remain trapped in scammer farms. In this conclusion, we explore what it will take to shut them…

• The Man Helping People Escape Scammer Farms

  April 4, 2025 · 39 min

  Judah Tana has rescued around 1,000 people from scammer farms. He shares how he got into this work and some of the shocking things he's witnessed. Plus, we hear Cattleya's story of escaping home to her family in the Philippines. Please…

• Enter the 'Dark Room'

  March 27, 2025 · 38 min

  Small Q's efforts to escape have landed him in the 'the dark room,' a modern-day torture chamber designed to instill fear in scammers to keep them in line. Q shares how he survived, while some of his friends weren't so lucky. Please help…

• Escaping Starts With Stealing a Phone

  March 21, 2025 · 30 min

  In the first half of this episode, we explore the anatomy of a scam via the story of Troy Gochenour, an American man who lost $25K to Myanmar scammers in 2021. Then we check in on Small Q, who devises a risky plan to get an SOS message to…

• Inside the Gross Business of Scamming

  March 14, 2025 · 27 min

  We start this episode with another story of abduction. Cataleya is a Filipino mother who was sold into slavery by a friend. We then compare Cataleya and Small Q's stories of how they ran scams. It's a fascinating look at the way scamming…

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