Cambodian government allows slavery and torture to flourish inside scamming compounds
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The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring a litany of human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. Survivors interviewed for the report, “I […]
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The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring a litany of human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

Survivors interviewed for the report, “I Was Someone Else’s Property”, believed they were applying for genuine jobs but were instead trafficked to Cambodia, where they were held in prison-like compounds and forced to conduct online scams in a billion-dollar shadow economy defrauding people around the world.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    242·
    2 days ago

    “Scamming compound” is not a word I wanted to add to my dictionary. Look at this shit:

    Compound Cambodia

    That’s methodical, structured, newly built, and completely fenced in. It couldn’t have happened without the government at least looking the other way.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    This vaguely mentions “online scams”. Wonder what type of scams they are talking about.

        • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          I’ve received a few texts in the past, or messages in WhatsApp, that start by a message apparently sent to the wrong person. Sometimes they had the photo of an a young attractive lady. When you reply, they continue conversing anyway, as if they were bored. By after a while, it gets pretty clear it’s fake. I had one go from broken English short messages to elaborate ChatGPT messages to feign interest in fringe interests I expressed having.

          • Tower@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            Oh. Sorry for the dumb question. I’m new to this whole Lemmy thing. I’m trying to make friends and you seem chill. What do you like to do for fun when no one’s around?