Online Scam

Online Scams are a growing form of human trafficking, particularly in the sex trafficking of minors. Traffickers may use social media and other online platforms to lure vulnerable individuals into exploitation, using false promises of love or friendship to gain their trust. Once the victim has been lured into a relationship, the trafficker may begin to coerce them into performing sexual acts or sharing sexually explicit material. Online scams can be particularly difficult to investigate and prosecute, as traffickers can operate from anywhere in the world and may use encryption and other tools to conceal their activities.

 

Cambodia Human Trafficking: Job Recruitment Serves as Front to Lure Victims
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Cambodia Human Trafficking: Job Recruitment Serves as Front to Lure Victims

Several people worldwide lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Due to this, there are also a lot of unscrupulous people who take advantage of other people even if it means making dirty money. Cambodia human trafficking is getting prevalent and continues to victimize job seekers. Cambodia Human Trafficking Victims Repatriated Recently, Cambodia deported 12…

Scammers reportedly trafficking people to Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand
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Scammers reportedly trafficking people to Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand

According to the BBC, thousands of people across South East Asia have been trafficked to Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand where they are forced to work in online scam centers known as “fraud factories”.  “I knew then I had come to the wrong place” Victims report accepting attractive work offers abroad but having their passports taken…

The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting – Slate Magazine
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The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting – Slate Magazine

Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…

Inside the 'pig-butchering' scams seeing thousands trafficked into cyber slavery – ABC News
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Inside the 'pig-butchering' scams seeing thousands trafficked into cyber slavery – ABC News

Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…

China Criticises Italy’s Media For Its Report On Beijing’s ‘practice’ Of Organ Harvesting
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China Criticises Italy’s Media For Its Report On Beijing’s ‘practice’ Of Organ Harvesting

Italy has become the target of Chinese propaganda after an article on organ harvesting was published in the Italian weekly magazine Panorama. The Chinese Communist Party is aiming to penetrate democratic countries through its long arm, according to Marco Respinti’s article in Bitter Winter, a newspaper that advocates human rights and religious freedom. An article…

Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
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Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming

Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…

Controversial China-Backed New City is Myanmar’s Human Trafficking Hub
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Controversial China-Backed New City is Myanmar’s Human Trafficking Hub

By Yan Naing 6 September 2022 Myanmar, isolated from the rest of the world since last year’s coup, is rapidly becoming an even bigger headache for the Southeast Asia region. Rising incidents of human trafficking have alarmed human rights activists, with reports that the Shwe Kokko New City in southeast Myanmar’s Karen State has become…

Vietnam working with Cambodia on serious human trafficking situation – Asia News Network
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Vietnam working with Cambodia on serious human trafficking situation – Asia News Network

August 26, 2022 HÀ NỘI — -Việt Nam is actively working with Cambodian authorities to rescue and provide assistance to the Vietnamese nationals that have been scammed and smuggled illegally to Cambodia to work. Lê Thị Thu Hằng, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Việt Nam, made the remarks on Thursday in response…

PH gains US nod in fight vs human trafficking – Manila Bulletin
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PH gains US nod in fight vs human trafficking – Manila Bulletin

The United States government cited the Philippine government for its relentless efforts in fully achieving the minimum standards against trafficking in persons (TIP) amidt the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) disclosed on Saturday, July 23. This was based on the recently-issued 2022 US TIP report which placed the…