Lured With Promise of Jobs, Thai Nationals Detained, Sold to Scam Operations in Cambodia

Gai had her eyes out for a new job, a change from working at a convenience store in Bangkok, when she scrolled past an alluring Facebook ad for a marketing position in Cambodia that promised $600 or more each month.

About three or four days after answering voice messages from a broker on messaging app Line, Gai and her boyfriend, also on the job market, found themselves in a van heading toward the border province of Sa Kaeo, Thailand.

Gai crossed the border into Poipet under the cover of rain and darkness, and it would be the rain again that would allow her to escape a network of online scam companies that is allegedly trafficking and detaining workers in Cambodia’s casino-packed bordertown.

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