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They scam unsuspecting victims all across the world — but they are victims themselves. Thousands of people are trafficked worldwide into Myanmar's war-torn east, where they are forced to trick people in Europe, the US and China into scam schemes.     #ScamFactory #CyberCrime #OnlineScams #InternetFraud #VictimExploitation #GlobalScamming #FraudulentActivities #DigitalSecurity #ScamAwareness #OnlineSafety #ScamPrevention #TechScams #CyberThreats #ScamAlert #DigitalFraud #VictimRights #TechSecurity #ScamVictims #CyberCriminals #FraudAwareness                 ~PR.152~ED.101~GR.124~HT.96~

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00:00 In this compound on Myanmar's border with Thailand, thousands of people are working

00:07 to trick people in China, the US and Europe out of their savings.

00:12 But the people inside aren't doing so for personal profit.

00:16 They've been trafficked from across the globe and are being forced to work in a scam factory

00:21 in slave-like conditions.

00:24 If there is no client at noon, no lunch.

00:27 If someone checks and you didn't reply to a client, they beat you or make you stand

00:32 for hours.

00:34 Lucas is part of a group that managed to escape a scam factory known as KK Park.

00:41 It's one of around 12 such compounds in this area of Myanmar's Karin State.

00:46 And it's one of the most notorious.

00:48 Security was checking our computers, seeing if we were doing our job or playing.

00:53 We work 17 hours a day.

00:55 No complaints, no holidays, no rest.

00:58 And if we say we want to leave, they tell us they will sell us or kill us.

01:04 So they did what they were told.

01:07 Make contact with people on the internet, win their trust and convince them to invest

01:12 in fake cryptocurrency sites.

01:15 Once the victims have sent enough money, the website is shut down and their money gone.

01:22 This sophisticated form of scamming is called pig butchering.

01:27 And the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates such scams generate more revenue

01:32 than the drug trade in Southeast Asia.

01:36 KK Park alone makes tens of millions of euros a month, apparently enabled by soldiers of

01:42 Myanmar's border guard and on the backs of helpless victims of human trafficking.

01:47 His last message says, "We are in a bunker after the river."

01:50 I don't know what's down the end of that river.

01:54 On the Thai side of the border, a team of aid workers is on a mission to help them escape.

02:01 Timing is critical.

02:04 Victims are sometimes transferred in taxis to other compounds via Thailand because the

02:09 roads there are faster and safer.

02:11 That's when Judah and Michelle act.

02:13 We're looking for a taxi with a license plate 95, yellow and blue, coming up on that side

02:18 of the road.

02:20 It's a dangerous mission.

02:22 They don't know if armed traffickers are in the car.

02:25 They turn down the side street.

02:29 OK, pull over, pull over, pull over.

02:33 Reverse into that spot.

02:38 This time they're lucky.

02:39 There are no armed traffickers in sight.

02:42 There's no opposition from the taxi driver.

02:44 Judah and Michelle manage to usher the group into their car.

02:51 My name's Judah.

02:52 Nice to meet you.

02:55 The group are brought to a safe house for a much needed rest.

03:00 The next step will be dealing with immigration authorities.

03:04 Not an easy experience.

03:07 And I hope I can go back to my country and find a job that I was graduated for, to start

03:13 a new life.

03:15 Aaron and Lucas were eventually recognised as victims of human trafficking and repatriated

03:21 to their home country.

03:23 But thousands of victims are still trapped at KK Park and other scam factories somewhere

03:28 on the Myanmar-Thailand border.

03:30 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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