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Chinese scammers enslave jobless teachers and tourists in Cambodia

Chinese scammers enslave jobless teachers and tourists in Cambodia

MATT BLOMBERG FOREIGN workers and tourists stranded in Cambodia during the COVID-19 pandemic have been trafficked and forced to work in sophisticated Chinese-run online scams, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found. In interviews, nine trafficking victims said they were lured by social media adverts promising well-paid jobs in call centres. Instead, they ended up in shuttered hotel casinos and guarded compounds where they had their passports confiscated before being put to work online. The victims, mainly from Africa and Asia, said they were ordered to create fake profiles on Tinder, WhatsApp and Facebook to entice people into fraudulent investment…
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COVID-19 school closures: Traffickers eye children

COVID-19 school closures: Traffickers eye children

KIERAN GUILBERT HUMAN traffickers worldwide are increasingly targeting children and will likely exploit school closures during the coronavirus pandemic to abuse the young, the United Nations said. Children make up a third of trafficking victims who are uncovered - a share that has tripled in the past 15 years, with girls mainly exploited for sex and boys forced into work, a report by the U.N. Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found. About 49,000 victims were detected and reported in total in 2018 - up from 24,000 in 2016 - according to the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, which was based…
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