My journey into a crypto scam began with a text from Vicky Ho
As an investigative journalist, I went from a New York bar to a beach town in Cambodia to explore how organised crime gangs use messaging to dupe Westerners.
The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August last year, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I’m Vicky Ho don’t you remember me?”
This was strange. My name isn’t David, and I didn’t know anyone named Vicky. But I’d been getting a lot of seemingly misdirected messages on my phone.
