Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
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Re: Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
The suspect, Chea Sokhchin, was arrested by police on the evening of 4 January 2016.
(Warning: link contains extremely graphic photos of the victims.)
http://www.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/ ... 12-26.html
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Re: Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
Now the suspect has been apprehended, details of the motive for the murders have been revealed. It was not robbery, as it was first recounted by the surviving victim, but is related to recruitment for the online sales company, b:HIP.
The victims persuaded the suspect to come to Siem Reap and work as a sales person for b:HIP online sales company, telling him he would make a lot of money, up to $1000 a month in commission.
The victims, who were all working for b:HIP, were probably not making much money at their sales job, so they attempted to recruit Chea (and probably others) on Facebook in order to earn a recruitment bonus.
When Chea found out that in order to join b:HIP he was expected to pay $1300, he was angry with the victims because he thought they tried to scam him, and they were wasting his time because he had no money. [It seems the suspect may have traveled from his home in Kampong Chnang to Siem Reap, believing he had a good job waiting.]
The reports differ over whether Chea confronted the victims and killed them in anger, or whether he waited until they were sleeping before cutting their throats.
The b:HIP bonus system:
While the company concerned is in no way responsible for this crime, it does seem a questionable practice to employ poor Cambodians to sell expensive "health products" in a country where the market is small to non-existent; consumers with this sort of money can buy products directly from the internet.
The price of the b:HIP products that the Cambodian salespeople are expected to sell starts at $50.
All information from Cambodia Daily and Phnom Penh Post.
Screenshots from b:HIP website.
The victims persuaded the suspect to come to Siem Reap and work as a sales person for b:HIP online sales company, telling him he would make a lot of money, up to $1000 a month in commission.
The victims, who were all working for b:HIP, were probably not making much money at their sales job, so they attempted to recruit Chea (and probably others) on Facebook in order to earn a recruitment bonus.
When Chea found out that in order to join b:HIP he was expected to pay $1300, he was angry with the victims because he thought they tried to scam him, and they were wasting his time because he had no money. [It seems the suspect may have traveled from his home in Kampong Chnang to Siem Reap, believing he had a good job waiting.]
The reports differ over whether Chea confronted the victims and killed them in anger, or whether he waited until they were sleeping before cutting their throats.
The b:HIP bonus system:
Spoiler:
The price of the b:HIP products that the Cambodian salespeople are expected to sell starts at $50.
All information from Cambodia Daily and Phnom Penh Post.
Screenshots from b:HIP website.
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Re: Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
Of course! All these "business" models work on praying on the poor and uneducated. I had quite a few meetings with my ex-staff explaining that these are actually very immoral pyramid schemes. And I do blame these companies for all the bad that comes out of it.
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Re: Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
Nah, fuck that. Mr Chea Sokchin is responsible for bludgeoning those people to death.
Sure, Herbalife and their ilk are scummy companies, but cannot be blamed for emotionally unstable homicidal redneck fuckheads from K.Chanang getting stabby because they felt hard done by.
Sure, Herbalife and their ilk are scummy companies, but cannot be blamed for emotionally unstable homicidal redneck fuckheads from K.Chanang getting stabby because they felt hard done by.
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Re: Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
Interesting topic discussed by John Oliver on HBO some 2 months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MwGeOm8iI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MwGeOm8iI
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king - Erasmus
Re: Online health product sellers murdered in Siem Reap..
Jerry Atrick wrote:Nah, fuck that. Mr Chea Sokchin is responsible for bludgeoning those people to death.
Sure, Herbalife and their ilk are scummy companies, but cannot be blamed for emotionally unstable homicidal redneck fuckheads from K.Chanang getting stabby because they felt hard done by.
I stand with you Jerry.
Being a victim of a con should not culminate in murder.
Pissed off? Fuk Yeah. Ass whippin? Most likely.
Suk it up & move on.
That young lad is about to become victim to an even greater pyramid scheme.
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