Cyber slavery: inside Cambodia's online scam gangs (UPDATED)

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Re: Cyber slavery: inside Cambodia's online scam gangs (UPDATED)

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A Malaysian mother is attempting to rescue her son from a crime syndicate based in Cambodia.

Who leaked details of my son, asks Cambodia scam victim’s mother
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May 28, 2022 10:00 AM
PETALING JAYA: A woman whose son is trapped in Cambodia has accused the authorities there of leaking information regarding her son’s whereabouts to criminal syndicates that lured him there through a job scam.

The woman, known as Wong, said her son was lured to Cambodia seven months ago and has told her that he is stranded there.

She said efforts to rescue him had so far failed, even though she had given valuable information to the authorities.

She said she believed corrupt officers in Cambodian enforcement agencies were working in cahoots with the syndicates.

She explained that she had obtained information about her son’s whereabouts through the efforts of well-wishers and from what her son said in secret phone calls.

She furnished the details to the Malaysian embassy in Phnom Penh, which is believed to have relayed the information to the Cambodian police.

“However, to my surprise, the syndicate queried my son on the exact details which they received from the Cambodian police,” Wong told FMT.

As a result, she said her son was now trapped in a complex web of human trafficking and scam syndicates in Cambodia.

“After the information was leaked, he was sent to another syndicate. From a phone call with my son a few days ago, he told me that he’s again being transferred to a third syndicate,” she said.

FMT has emailed the Malaysian embassy in Cambodia for clarification.
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Re: Cyber slavery: inside Cambodia's online scam gangs (UPDATED)

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Malaysian teenager forced to become a scammer after falling for job ad
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SINGAPORE - When Malaysian teenager Ah Heng (not his real name) saw a Facebook post in February advertising a job for a customer service position in Cambodia, he was intrigued.

The job promised him RM4,000 (S$1,250), which was more than what Ah Heng, 19, earned monthly as a phone shop assistant back home.

But it was the beginning of a three-month ordeal during which he would be forced to work for a transnational scam syndicate, which allegedly stole millions of dollars from victims.

Tempted by a higher salary, Ah Heng left his home town in Kepong, in Kuala Lumpur, on Feb 18 for Sihanoukville, a coastal city in Cambodia.

Ah Heng said: "I thought, with this salary, I would be able to have a better life."

He was speaking to The Sunday Times, in a three-hour exclusive interview facilitated by the Global Anti-Scam Organisation (Gaso), a volunteer-run group that warns the public about scams and supports victims.

Gaso was one of several organisations involved in a transnational operation on April 5 led by the Royal Malaysia Police and the Cambodian National Police to secure the release of 16 Malaysians, including Ah Heng, who claimed to have been forced to become scammers.

Interpol, which was also involved in the operation, told The Sunday Times that among the 16 Malaysians, there were 15 men and one woman.

Interpol said: "The authorities in both countries believe there are more victims of the criminal group and the ongoing investigation is being supported by Interpol's Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants unit."

Sihanoukville, where the 16 Malaysians were found, is believed to be home to multiple scam syndicates, according to reports by Al Jazeera and Nikkei Asia.
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June 10, 2022
Captive labour: 22 Indonesian ‘slave workers’ rescued in Svay Rieng
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In yet another case of foreigners being lured to work in Cambodia, only to end up in in captivity, authorities in Svay Rieng province recently rescued 22 Indonesian migrant workers who had been held against their will by two companies.

Worse still, some of the 22 were sold by one syndicate to another with no humanity as the workers claimed to have been detained and forced to undertake online scam activities targeting other foreign nationals.

The workers’ travel documents were also confiscated by their respective employers while some of them reported they had been sold from their previous companies to their Bavet city-based ones.

However, their plight came to an end, thanks to the intervention of the Republic of Indonesia Embassy in Phnom Penh, which worked in tandem with Svay Rieng provincial administration and provincial police and managed to safely secure the release of all 22 from their captors on June 3.
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where are the photos of the captors in handcuffs?
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its NOT just Cambodia.
fucking chinese, the people you just love to hate :stir:

Criminal gangs tarnish Golden Triangle
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Kings Romans Casino — an infamous gambling outlet on the Thai-Lao border by the Mekong River.
Casinos and other related activities are an engine for the rapid growth of this business empire over the past 10 years. Apart from being incompatible with local culture, the empire is a breeding ground for a number of illegal businesses, including narcotics and wildlife smuggling as well as human trafficking.

A woman who was lured to Kings Romans said she was encouraged by a relative to apply for a job at the casino which offered an attractive income, a minimum of 30,000 baht per month. She went there with a group of friends, crossing the border through natural channels. They were greeted by a team of Chinese men who took them to a building near the casino.

But it was not the casino job she was expecting. Instead, the woman said the group was forced into operating online scams using fake Instagram and Facebook accounts. After making the money, with some victims losing millions of baht, the Chinese would close down the "company" and then reopen under a new name to escape the law.
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Another Malaysian mother is begging for her son to be rescued from the clutches of a criminal cyber-slavery gang operating in Cambodia.

"Help Him" – Mother Begs As Cambodia Job Scam Syndicate Threatens To Sell Her Son's Organs
She said her son left to Cambodia after he was falsely promised a salary of RM8,000 to RM9,000 per month.
By May Vin Ang — 15 Jun 2022, 05:48 PM
A mother from Penang is begging for her son to be rescued after he fell victim to a job scam and is now being held hostage in Cambodia

According to Bernama, 39-year-old Tay Poh Chai was deceived by a job offer that promised a salary of RM8,000 to RM9,000 per month in the online gambling industry and headed off to Cambodia in December last year.

His mother, 68-year-old Khor Cha Bo, said their family strongly advised him against going.

"My son worked as a part-time electrician here. He was enticed to go to Cambodia by his friend because the salary was good," she said at a press conference organised by Bukit Mertajam member of Parliament (MP) Steven Sim yesterday, 14 June.

Now she is pleading with the government, particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the police, to help bring her son back home

"While there, we were in touch a few times and he said that everything was okay... until 28 May when he contacted us via WeChat and asked for help to pay USD15,000 (approximately RM66,000) to his employer, who didn't think he was suited for the job anymore," she said.

The mother said the employer told her that Tay was not performing up to expectations and have sacked him, and their family has to pay the compensation for his release, or his organs will be sold.

"The employer threatened to sell my son's organs if we failed to reimburse them. We are very worried and scared for him. That's why we're asking the government and authorities for help to save him."
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Fake news , he just wants a free ticket home, well that's what the official news will report after an intensive investigation.
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atst wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:42 am Fake news , he just wants a free ticket home, well that's what the official news will report after an intensive investigation.
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Tootsfriend wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:54 am
atst wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:42 am Fake news , he just wants a free ticket home, well that's what the official news will report after an intensive investigation.
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I think that should be Chinese version.
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Thais arrested as scam gangs busted in Cambodia

https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/ ... ia-178705/

June 23, 2022
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Twenty-one Thais working for romance and investment scam gangs in Cambodia have been arrested and were expected to be returned to Thailand next week.
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