Criminal gangs increasingly lure victims to work in online scam centers, UN migration agency warns

Once brought in, they often get locked up, have their identity documents seized, and forced through violence, threats and "debt bondage" to participate in the online scams.

Migration authorities have said gangs are trafficking ever more people to East Asian online scam centers. The UN says some 300,000 people from more than 80 countries are currently being exploited and abused.

IOM chief says victims from more than 80 countries are lured into scam centres through fake job offers on social media.

People from more than 80 countries have been lured in through social media, with some being sexually abused

The UN’s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people — many of them educated English speakers — to work in online scam centres, and the caseload is growing.

Criminal gangs increasingly lure people to work in online scam centers, UN migration agency warns  Toronto Star

The U.N.’s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people to work in online scam centers, and the caseload is growing — especially across Asia

Criminal gangs increasingly lure people to work in online scam centers, UN migration agency warns  AP News

A job advert can hide a criminal network, and a single click can lead to a nightmare. Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked every year on the promise of legitimate work abroad, only to be held captive and forced into online scam operations.

Johor police chief Ab Rahaman Arsad says those arrested were aged between 20 and 58 and included 309 Chinese nationals, 19 Indonesians, 3 Malaysians, and 4 Myanmarese