In Thai villages, Chinese gangs recruit desperate for phone scams

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Thai police say they recently rescued two dozen people being held against their will by Chinese scam gangs in Sihanoukville, Cambodia [Courtesy of Sai Mai Will Survive Facebook group]

 

Thai police say they have rescued some 700 Thais held against their will by Chinese gangs in Cambodia.

 

By Vijitra Duangdee

 

Bangkok, Thailand – The brokers arrived with promises of high-paying online sales jobs in Poipet, a Cambodian border town just an hour’s drive from Teerapat and Dao’s home in eastern Thailand.

 

After more than two years of pandemic-induced poverty, Teerapat and Dao were willing to take virtually any work away from their remote, rural village.

 

But by the next day, the couple began to realise they had made a terrible mistake.

 

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After being driven deep across the border to the crime-ridden Cambodian beach town of Sihanoukville, Teerapat and Dao allege that they were ordered to stay inside a guarded 12-storey compound where Chinese “bosses” laid out their instructions via an interpreter.

 

Full story: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/13/in-thailand-chinese-gangs-recruit-the-desperate-into-phone-scams

 

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[Will B Good]

The old adage.....'.If it sounds too good to be true'......springs to mind......throw in the fact it is the Chinese operating in a second country offering work in third country.......HELLO!!

[mtls2005]

On the plus side they still have their kidneys.

 

 

 https://aseannow.com/topic/1253011-thai-woman-claims-close-call-with-organ-trading-gang-in-cambodia/

 

 

She is said to have fabricated the organ part later...

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-woman-fabricated-story-of-falling-victim-to-organ-trafficking-gang-in-cambodia/

[StayinThailand2much]

5 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

On the plus side they still have their kidneys.

Plus, if they were so desperate, then free food while they were there isn't so bad either. Also, no information that they were not paid for the job.

[hotchilli]

Desperate time leads to desperate decisions... mostly bad ones.

[Cake Monster]

There is no body quite as gullible as a Thai when the prospect of high earnings are placed in front of them.

All of them would have gone willingly to Cambodia, but are whining now because the promised high earnings have not materialised.