The job ads always sound too good to be true. Open and well-paid positions at a popular casino. Lodgings, benefits and other perks provided.
But it all ends up quite the opposite. Victims are being caught in trafficking rackets to the Mekong region in Southeast Asia, lured to jobs in call centres where workers are forced to run online scams for money. It means victims are two-fold those targeted by the scams, and those forced to carry them out. The first type of victim is familiar, but the second rarely so.
These concerns occur in the context of wide-ranging digital criminal activity such as romance-investment scams, crypto fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling, warned a report in August released by the Office of the UN High Comm…
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