The Fight of My Life

There have been some incredible developments these last two months in the fight against forced scamming. For the first time, the world’s most powerful governments are beginning to treat this crisis not as a distant crime, but as a global human rights emergency — one that can be fought with the same tools once used against war criminals and oligarchs. At the centre of that strategy is a man named B...

Two months on from the verdict, Ava's battle continues. LINK TO GIVE TO AVA'S GOFUNDME: https://www.gofundme.com/f/vxg4d-support-avas-legal-battle-in-thailand

Ava's verdict was handed down - and it was not what any of us had been hoping for. ---- LINK TO GIVE TO AVA'S GOFUNDME: https://www.gofundme.com/f/vxg4d-support-avas-legal-battle-in-thailand

Micah is finally free, but Ava is still trapped. When dramatically she does get released, instead of finding a joyful reunion, she’s handcuffed and charged as a criminal. Both Micah and Ava realize that though they’ve escaped Sihanoukville, there’s a long journey ahead to rebuilding their lives. PLUS: What’s the connection between recent U.S. funding cuts, Chinese crime syndicates, and your bank a...

We discover that the person Micah reached out to for help was none other than our producer Jake. The wheels for rescue are put into motion but the scam boss discovers that Micah has been asking for help, and calls him in to face the consequences. PLUS: Americans lost $12.5 billion in 2024 alone to online scams. How is the government responding? The answer might surprise you. Show website: fightofm...

Micah is sold to another scam center, bigger and more brutal than the last. Tasers. Dark rooms. So-called “suicides,” and co-workers who simply disappear. He’s close to giving up, when he stumbles upon a person on the internet, who might be his last hope of escape. PLUS: We ask transnational crime expert - and show producer - Jacob “Jake” Sims (an American) why governments in Southeast Asia aren’t...

Conditions in the compound worsen as the scammers are forced to extract more money from victims. An emotional encounter with a victim leaves Ava shaken and depressed. Micah’s escape plan backfires terribly: he’s been caught. PLUS: we speak to an American who lost his life savings, and break down just how “pig butchering” scams work – and why they’re so effective. Show website: fightofmylifepodcast...

**Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence. Listener discretion is advised.** Trapped with Ava in a heavily guarded compound, Micah learns that escaping won’t be as easy as he thought. He forms a daring plan, but when he sees other workers brutally punished and beaten, knows he’s taking a major risk. Even still, he acts. PLUS : we fly to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to follow Mi...

Season 2 of the multi-award-winning podcast The Fight of My Life returns with Escaping Scam City —a six-part true crime series about love, deception, and survival inside Southeast Asia’s hidden scam compounds. Young couple Micah and Ava apply for what they think is a dream job in Cambodia. Ava arrives first and realises it’s in fact a scamming factory, targeting people overseas like you and me. Sh...

Season 2 of the multi-award-winning podcast The Fight of My Life returns with Escaping Scam City —a six-part true crime series about love, deception, and survival inside Southeast Asia’s hidden scam compounds. Season 2 of The Fight of My Life - Escaping Scam City delves into the alarming rise of forced scamming, exploring what has been termed the "pig butchering epidemic and its global impact...

Episode 6 - The Triumph: Bitterness and anger well up in Ruby as she tries to move on with her life. Can she overcome this and truly heal? We open with Ruby’s dream. She is walking in a lush green field where she feels safe and free. The dream echoes Psalm 23 and comes after Ruby and her social worker at the DSWD pray about Ruby moving to a new safe house in the country. It is here, at the new hou...

Episode 5 - The Trial: The fight for justice now begins. Ruby’s perpetrators belong behind bars, but their lawyer will do anything to stop that from happening. Ruby and the girls from the house are brought to the DSWD for safekeeping while the criminal trial against the perpetrators  is prepared. Ruby’s fierce young lawyer, Attorney Kath of IJM, AKA ‘The Dainty Dragon’ is introduced for the first...

" Light breaks into the darkness. A painstaking investigation leads to the rescue of Ruby and the other girls." Listeners are given behind the scenes access to how a rescue operation is built–and spoiler–it isn’t all busting down doors! We travel alongside Attorney Rey of International Justice Mission as he works alongside Philippines police to gain access to the house Ruby and the girls...

"Who exactly is on the other side of the webcam? We come face to face with the kind of men exploiting Ruby. " Just who are these perpetrators who commit this heinous crime, and why? This episode opens a little differently: from the point of view of an overseas perpetrator. If we want to combat this crime, we need to understand something about those who commit it. We rejoin Ruby as she at...

Ruby is caught in the online sex trafficking den. The days are gruelling but she is determined to escape. When Ruby arrives at the house in Pampanga, the lady who first reached out to her is nowhere to be seen. The next morning, she comes face to face with her ‘boss,’ Nadine. Ruby tells her immediately that she wants to get out.  Nadine explains that Ruby must work to pay back her travel costs. Bu...

" Piece by piece, the layers of protection around Ruby are pulled away. It is into this space that the message arrives on Facebook." It all begins with a greeting from an unknown woman over Facebook, offering sixteen year-old Ruby a job in a computer shop.  Full of hopes and expectations of a better life, and wanting to escape from the pain of her very recent past, Ruby journeys across t...

"Finding Ruby", the first season of The Fight of My Life premieres on September 5th. Join Ruby on her remarkable true story; a journey from the protection of the mountains to the nightmare of an online sex-trafficking den, from the heat of the courtroom to the cool of the aftercare shelter, from fear to freedom, from captivity to restoration. From being lost to being truly found Find out...