“For the love of money is the root of all evil” - 1 Timothy 6:10

Thank you for your interest in my forthcoming book! The Big Trace will pull back the curtain on a devastating global phenomenon: the rise of “pig-butchering scams” fueled by human trafficking and forced labor. It is the capstone of my reporting spanning interviews and reporting trips with sources across 18 countries on six continents thus far, and I hope it will provide the public a much-needed cyber-vaccination against this pernicious fraud and its devastating consequences.

The first step of a pig-butchering scam is to gain the victim’s trust online; the scammer then convinces them to deposit more and more money into a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform until they realize, finally, that they are the victims of a cruel and subtle new type of fraud. To scale up their operations, criminal gangs turned to human smugglers to build a massive workforce of forced laborers. In only four years, these scammers have bilked the world of as much as $75 billion.

The Big Trace will follow the money through every step of the journey, illustrating the inner workings of what is quite possibly the most dangerous fraud the world has ever faced. Join me on this journey by subscribing to my newsletter and you’ll get occasional updates from me as I finish my manuscript and – of course – you’ll be the first to know when The Big Trace is nearing its global publication date.

Thank you for your interest, and stay in touch.

Cezary