UN Agency Warns of Human Trafficking into Asian Scam Centers
A UN agency has warned that educated English speakers are being trafficked into Asian scam centers through fake job advertisements. These criminal gangs are luring individuals with promises of employment.
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Asian scam gangs snare educated English speakers with fake job ads: UN agency
The UN’s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people – many of them educated English speakers – to work in online scam centres, and the caseload is growing. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says victims are often lured by fake job advertisements – mostly through social media – promising work abroad, only to get locked up, have their identity documents seized, and be forced through violence, threats and “debt bondag...
By Associated Press
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IOM says people are duped by fake ads and stripped of documents
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