The United Nations on Tuesday issued a report on the brutal treatment of people forced to work in online and telephone scam centers across Southeast Asia.
According to the U.N., there could be over a quarter of a million victims of these slavery and human trafficking rackets.
“Other States in the region, including Lao PDR, the Philippines and Thailand, have also been identified as main countries of destination or transit where at least tens of thousands of people have been involved,” OHCHR added.
The human trafficking rings spotlighted by the U.N. report specialize in luring job seekers into slavery at “scam centers” that participate in everything from “romance-investment scams and crypto…