I want to know how it works.

我想知道它是如何運作的。

What's happening?

發生什麼事了？

You can see him?

你可以看到他？

Okay, everyone ready?

好了，大家準備好了嗎？

He's driving up, guys.

各位他開上來了。

So I arranged to meet with a man who was described to me as a big player in the scamming industry.

我安排和一個男人見面，他說他是詐騙業中的資深玩家。

I'm told he's made a fortune running various investment companies, all of which specialized in financial fraud.

聽說他經營著多家投資公司，都是專門從事金融詐騙的。

I was also told to be very careful.

我也被告知要非常小心。

Hi.

嗨。

Hello.

你好啊。

- Thank you so much for meeting us. I am Mariana. - Moshiko.

- 非常感謝您能與我們見面。我是Mariana。 - Moshiko。

- Do you have a phone? - I do.

- 你有手機嗎？ - 有。

I'd like to have it.

把它給我吧。

Okay.

好吧。

- I don't want to be tracked. - So you're gonna turn it off?

- 我不想被跟蹤。 - 所以你要把它關掉嗎？

Just give it to me. I'll take care of it.

給我就好。我會好好保管它。

Ok.

哦，好吧。

I've interviewed hundreds of people through the years.

這些年來，我採訪了數百人。

Moshiko is the first to ever take away my phone.

Moshiko是第一個拿走我手機的人。

I asked him to give me the scammer store of Tel Aviv.

我讓他帶我看看特拉维夫的詐騙商店。

We're in the Ramet Gan.

我們現在在拉馬特甘。

It's an area known as the Diamond District.

是被稱為鑽石區的地區。

Buildings like this and all these skyscrapers you see, they have hundreds and hundreds of people that go to work each day, selling fake investments to people around the world.

你看到像這樣的摩天大樓，每天都有數百人到裡面工作，販賣假投資給全世界的人。

- In a lot of these buildings that look completely legitimate, there's actually all this... - Many of the companies there are just fake scams with a name that makes them real.

- 這些很多建築都看起來合法，它其實是…… - 很多詐騙公司都用名字讓他們看起來跟真的一樣。

No one knows what's going on behind closed doors.

沒人知道門關起來後裡面在做什麼。

Is it an open secret? You seem to know and people in Tel Aviv and Israel? No?

這是一個公開的祕密嗎？你好像知道然後特拉維夫跟以色列的人呢？不知道？

No, they don't want to attract attention.

不知道，他們不想引起注意。

They don't want reporters calling them.

他們不想接到記者的電話。

It's a massive, massive fraud.

這是一個巨大的，巨大的騙局。

They wanna be under the radar.

他們不想被發現。

How many of these companies fraudulent, scamming companies do you think there are ?

你認為這裡有多少這種詐騙公司？

Israel?

以色列嗎？

Yeah.

是啊。

Five to ten thousand.

五千到一萬。

No way!

不可能！

One hundred percent.

百分之百。

Holy...

天吶……

While the lottery scam in Jamaica is the go-to con, in Israel, it's all about the investment scam.

牙買加有樂透騙局，但在以色列，全都是投資詐騙。

The depth of this fraud was first uncovered by Simona Weinglass, an investigative journalist who was tipped off by a source working at a scam investment company.

這場詐騙是由一位調查記者 Simona Weinglass從在投資詐騙公司的人身上聽到的。

He told me that there wasn't just one company like this, but there were hundreds and they were stealing billions of dollars.

他告訴我，像這樣的公司不只一家，而是有上百家，他們偷了幾十億美金。

It sounded crazy and it turned out to be true.

這聽起來很瘋狂，但卻是真的。

Just like in Jamaica, Simona says the investment scams in Israel often start with call centers and leave lists.

Simona說，就像在牙買加一樣，以色列的投資詐騙以電話服務中心和客戶名單開始。

Employees of these seemingly legitimate companies cold call potential clients and get them to invest in an exciting trading opportunities.

這些看似合法公司的員工會隨機撥打推銷電話給潛在客戶，告訴他們吸引人的投資機會。

You start to trade, you'll see your account going up and up.

開始交易的時候，你的賬戶金額會一直上升。

The retention agent will keep talking to you and getting you to put more and more money in, and then eventually, when a sense that you're not going to put any more money in, they just disappear with the money.

代理會不斷讓你投入越來越多的錢，最後，當你不想再把錢投入後，他們就會帶著錢消失。