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Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

WSJ | Posing as ‘Alicia,’ This Man Scammed Hundreds Online. He Was Also a Victim.

“It’s real people scamming real people, and those people have feelings, they have emotions, they have memories,” said Mechelle Moore, the Mae Sot-based chief executive of an anti-trafficking nonprofit called Global Alms Incorporated.

“They’re put into survival mode, where you either think you’re going to die or be extremely hurt in some way, and you choose to comply,” she said. “It’s absolutely disgusting and devastating.”

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

The Australian | How Asia’s brutal online scam factories reel in Aussies

Those working to counter the industrial scale trafficking, such as Mechelle Moore of the charity Global Alms are less polite. "If you don't have dedicated teams to stop this, then you're complicit, " she says.

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

DW News | Thousands trapped in Myanmar’s cyber slavery racket | DW News

DW Exclusive Myanmar Cyber slavery

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

DW News | How Chinese mafia run a scam factory in Myanmar

In KK Park, on the Myanmar-Thai border, those who refuse to scam face torture, starvation and even murder. DW investigates one of Asia's most brutal scam compounds and features Global Alms Incorporated Chief Executive Officer, Mechelle B Moore, and her work with the GAI Counter Trafficking Unit.

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

CNN | A Chinese criminal network is using modern day slaves

“It's terrifying to think what the scale of this is like, and then how much we can't do to help them. We can do our bit, but that's a drop in the ocean compared to what they need,” says Moore, who’s working day and night to save Rakesh’s friends and the dozens of people that reach out every day begging for help.

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

Mae Sot Temporary Shelter to Protect Potential Victims of Trafficking

Global Alms Incorporated Chief Executive Officer, Mechelle B Moore, the Tak Provincial Immigration Office together with local security agencies screened potential victims of trafficking according to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

Mae Sot National Referral Mechanism Steering Committee

Global Alms Incorporated Chief Executive Officer, Mechelle B Moore, with Government Agencies discussing guidelines for driving the integrated centre to separate victims of human trafficking in the Tak Province for assistance and protection of trafficking victims in the Mae Sot National Referral Mechanism Steering Committee.

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

Trafficking in Persons for Forced Criminality

Global Alms Incorporated Chief Executive Officer, Mechelle B Moore, along with the Tak Provincial Immigration Office, attended the multidisciplinary team meeting to consider separating persons who are reasonably believed to be victims of human trafficking during the Reflection Period under the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

Mae Sot Multi-Disciplinary Team members screening Potential Victims of Trafficking for Forced Criminality

Global Alms Incorporated Chief Executive Officer, Mechelle B Moore, the Tak Provincial Immigration Office together with local security agencies screened potential victims of trafficking according to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

Anti-Human Trafficking Network Committee Meeting

Global Alms Incorporated staff attend a workshop to develop operational requirements documents and review the strategy of the Mae Sot Anti-Human Trafficking Network.

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

SCMP | Brutality of life in trafficking compounds revealed in video from victims and NGO workers

Victims and workers with the anti-trafficking NGO Global Alms have shared footage of life inside compounds along Myanmar’s side of a shared river border with Thailand.

Global Alms CEO, Mechelle B Moore, on set for the filming of BBC3 Documentary Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang

SCMP | Exclusive: Survivors of Myanmar’s scam mills talk torture, death, organ harvesting – and the battle to escape

For some, the abuse inside turns deadly. Grace Mata was trafficked to KK Park, in the Myawaddy area, in July last year.

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