Human trafficking’s newest abuse: Forcing victims into cyberscamming
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Image credit: Aitor Diago via Getty Images. Article by Cezary Podkul, with Cindy Liu. Ars Technica – September 14, 2022. This story originally appeared on ProPublica.
The ads on the Telegram messaging service’s White Shark Channel this summer had the matter-of-fact tone and clipped phrasing you might find on a Craigslist posting. But this Chinese-language forum, which had some 5,700 users, wasn’t selling used Pelotons or cleaning services. It was selling human beings—in particular, human beings in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and other cities in southeast Asia. “Selling a Chinese man in Sihanoukville just smuggled from China. 22 years old with ID card, typing very slow,” one ad read, listing $10,000 as the price. […]
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