Investigative journalism NGO ProPublica recently uncovered significant human trafficking involving tens of thousands of people in China, Cambodia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, reports BFM Tech & Co. Through fake job offers, these "companies" would have enslaved many people in order to force them to produce online scams.
ProPublica, for example, collected the testimony of a 22-year-old Chinese who was caught in this traffic with his brother for six months in Cambodia.
The facts had started with a job offer in marketing to which they had responded in March 2021. Arrived on the spot, they had then been kept captive by their new bosses, who had asked them to pay 7,000 dollars to regain their freedom. .
Slave-selling groups
Without the possibility of obtaining this money, the two men were therefore forced to work, under pain of torture.
Their role was to participate in large-scale online scams aimed at people in Western countries.
These included 'pig-butchering', a scam that involves impersonating a wealthy man or businesswoman on dating sites in order to seduce and then extort money from victims. .
If they did not cooperate, the slaves were beaten and threatened, and sometimes even sold.
The NGO thus reported, in parallel, Facebook and Telegram groups dedicated to the sale of slaves.
The human trafficking linked to these online scams would thus be massive in Cambodia, which prompted the United States to register Cambodia in last July in the last places of the ranking of the best management of the elimination of human trafficking.
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