Crypto-pimps are turning refugees into crypto-trading escorts
‘Crypto-pimps’ are exploiting Eastern European refugees fleeing the Russia/Ukraine conflict and training them to become high-end sex workers specialized in trading crypto, an undercover journalist has claimed. According to Canadian journalist Ian Halperin, while conducting covert research at Crypto conferences, attendees revealed to him a network of female refugees being recruited to become Crypto trading escort s. These crypto pimps “would go on and on about the sex trade, how that was the most profitable… They said it was so simple. It’s so easy,” he told the Mirror. “They were telling me how they were making millions of dollars on the sex trade via Crypto .” Halperin claims that women are being scouted in countries including Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine by an agency known as StarModels before being offered free flights and a promise of a better life . StarModels has since changed its name. “The truth is the agency takes a rid...