Telegram Chinese channel White Shark has a lot of information on buying and selling, but what you buy is not goods but people. An advertisement posted on the channel said, “A 22-year-old Chinese man who has just smuggled in from Westport has an ID card and is slow to type…” 22-year-old Fan (Fan) worked as a chef at his sister’s restaurant, but the restaurant later Closing down, he switched to food delivery. In March 2021, he got a high-paying position to a well-known food delivery company in Cambodia with a monthly salary of $1,000. His brother was already working in Cambodia. Xiao Fan told his brother about it, and he immediately resigned and went with him. By the time they found out it was a scam it was too late. They are locked up and forced to work, but not the forced labor that used to be common in human smuggling, but to engage in online fraud . Tens of thousands of people from mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand have been lured to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar with this fake job scam, where they are controlled by the underworld to engage in online scams. If they refused, they were beaten, deprived of food, and even electrocuted. The mob boss asked them to pay $7,000 if they wanted to leave. If you can’t pay the money, keep doing it. The brothers were scammed again after six months of working. They were approached and offered to help them escape. As a result, the so-called escape was bought to another gangster, and their redemption fee rose to $11,700. The brothers were eventually sold to another gang, whose lax care gave them a chance to escape. He is ready to go back to his hometown to become a farmer and no longer think about going abroad to work and make a lot of money.
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