09/17/2026
The scam compounds making headlines across Southeast Asia don’t just affect people overseas. North Americans have been recruited into these operations through fake job ads, and are targeted daily by the scams these victims are forced to run.
The fraud calls, the romance scams, the crypto schemes flooding our phones...many originate from people who are themselves trapped.
The uncomfortable truth is that the person on the other end of a scam call may be a victim of trafficking themselves, held under threat, stripped of their documents, and forced to work.
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