Inside the world’s scam capital, where enslaved workers are forced to defraud Americans online
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Mithil Aggarwal, Tavleen Tarrant, Marin Scott, Colin Sheeley
8d ago· 1 min readNews
Five young men thought they were going to Cambodia to intern at a casino. Instead they say they became enslaved in one of the world’s most sophisticated fraud networks.
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