Asian scam gangs snare educated English speakers with fake job ads: UN agency

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The UN migration agency warns of criminal networks trafficking educated English speakers through fake job ads to online scam centers. Victims are often deceived via social media, coerced under debt bondage and violence, highlighting a growing human trafficking concern.

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. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says victims are often lured by fake job advertisements – mostly through social media – promising work abroad, only to get locked up, have their identity documents seized, and be forced through violence, threats and “debt bondage”...