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Southeast Asia: Abuses at online scamming operations - UN Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Office has published a report on the grave human rights abuses suffered by the hundreds of thousands of people trafficked into scam operations mostly in southeast Asia. 

“Victims describe being lured into scamming jobs under false pretenses and then being coerced into perpetrating online fraud ranging from impersonation scams, online extortion, financial fraud as well as romantic scams,” said UN Human Rights spokesperson Jeremy Laurence.