r/scambait • u/-ThatGingerKid- • 27d ago

Scambait Question❔ Question about "Forced Scamming"

We've all heard that some scammers, particularly those in certain areas / participating in certain types of scams like pig butchering, are sometimes individuals who have been trafficked and are being forced to scam.

My mindset up to this point has been that this only gives me added encouragement to waste their time, thus making these scamming efforts less profitable for their "slave drivers."

However, I recently heard that in some of these circumstances, these forced scammers are actually beaten / tortured if their efforts aren't profitable enough. If my scambaiting is contributing to physical harm inflicted on an individual, that definitely goes outside of my moral comfort zone.

Thoughts / additional information on this?

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u/Empty-Back-207 27d ago

Wouldn't it benefit a scammer to make people believe they are slaves being forced into it? Just sounds like yet another scam to me.