News Forum - Southeast Asia’s traffickers are targeting the young and tech savvy

[Thaiger]

Southeast Asia’s traffickers are targeting young and tech savvy people to lure into their devastating scams. The traffickers make ads promising easy work and cushy benefits, drawing in thousands of young and educated victims.  When the victims arrive at their destinations, they are held captive and forced to work in online scam centres known as “fraud factories”. These include love scams, crypto fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling. Cambodia in particular has become a hub for these scams, along with Thailand and Myanmar. Governments in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have also raised concerns about this trend.  One […]

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[Pinga]

Not to blame the victims, but you gotta be a special kind of stupid to believe a too-good-to-be-true job offer somewhere like Cambodia. In general accepting any job offer overseas is risky, but in a place like Cambodia and especially if it involves Chinese people it's pretty much guaranteed to be a scam.