As they combed through the responses, Alex began to notice a pattern. All the scammers’ calls seemed to have originated from the same area code. They were even more convinced when a few victims recalled seeing small, unfamiliar withdrawals in their bank statements after the scams, hinting at a link they could trace.
The breakthrough finally came late one night, when he traced a series of transactions to a derelict building in a rundown part of the industrial district. The location struck them as odd—a run-down, seemingly abandoned warehouse surrounded by barbed wire and graffiti.