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Seven Thai nationals who recorded a surreptitious livestream to say they had been tricked into working for scammers in Cambodia were rescued yesterday by Thai police. Two men and five women – among the thousands of Thai nationals tricked into virtual slavery in recent years – were returned to Thailand…
Thousands have been lured with fake job adverts in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, only to find themselves forced to defraud strangers online.
This is the third in a series of stories by Coconuts Bangkok about modern day slavery flourishing across borders in Southeast Asia. Read the first and second. When Dew arrived for a Tuesday morning hearing to the Criminal Court an hour before it opened, it was already packed with other…
This is the second in a series of stories by Coconuts Bangkok about modern day slavery flourishing across borders in Southeast Asia. The 40-year-old man calmly sipped iced coffee inside a Bangkok chain cafe in a plain white T-shirt. To anyone else, he would appear just another cafe customer taking…
When Nop tried to get help from the authorities, the Chinese captors he had been sold to locked him in a dark room, beat him, and shocked him with a baton. He had been lured to Cambodia by a promising job only to be forced into scamming Thais back home…