geovalin Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Once a financial securities analyst in China, Lu Xiangri never imagined he might be a victim of trafficking and enslavement by Chinese cyber-scam operations in Cambodia. Arriving in the Southeast Asian country in September 2020, the 32-year-old dreamed of starting his own business. To learn the ropes, he offered to help manage a friend’s restaurant in the capital, Phnom Penh. His friend was from the same village in China. Lu had watched him become wealthy, buying a big house and living well. He wanted the same for himself and his family - his parents, wife and two-year-old son. But in 2021 COVID-19 hit hard, and the restaurant closed. Lu was stranded in Cambodia without a job, unable to afford the escalating airfares and quarantine expenses to get him home. That is when a regular diner offered him a job he would quickly regret accepting. “He said I just needed to analyse the securities market for clients and that the salary would be more than $1,500 a month. I thought I just needed to work for two months to go back to China,” Lu tells Al Jazeera with a somewhat bemused smile. When he arrived for his first day of work, Lu discovered it was a scam operation and, worse still, when he tried to leave, he was told he could not. The reason? He’d been sold to the company for $12,000 and was now theirs until he paid the money back in full. read more https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/8/11/meet-cambodia-cyber-slaves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plus7 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Strange... I believe there are many people who will willingly cheat for salary. But in the original article there are certain resort names in Cambodia...incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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