Cambodia's online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting “cyber slave” workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure
long workdays with punishments like tasings and beatings when they miss goals https://restofworld.org/... @charlesmok : A “best kept secret” — well-known in Asia, very little in the rest of the world, which may not even know where Cambodia is. Casual trafficking, calls to parents, misleading ads: even with global pressure, recruitment is rife. https://restofworld.org/... @kimcrayton1 : Tech is NOT neutral nor apolitical... https://twitter.com/...
Scammed, trafficked, starved... How did Cambodia become the online scamming capital of the world? @DanielleRose84 and Lam Nguyen take a look for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/...
Foreign workers have been lured to Cambodia's scam industry by traffickers and even relatives on the false promise of high wages. Instead, they face “hell” — long workdays with punishments like tasings and beatings when they miss goals https://restofworld.org/...
A “best kept secret” — well-known in Asia, very little in the rest of the world, which may not even know where Cambodia is. Casual trafficking, calls to parents, misleading ads: even with global pressure, recruitment is rife. https://restofworld.org/...