A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarded compounds in Southeast Asia, a new UN human rights report has found.

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    13 hours ago

    You call that “exploiting them”? The glitter bombs on the money mules is also exploitation?

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        10 hours ago

        Yes, what does that have to do with it? We have the security footage too? They are not some poor bastards like in the article here. They work as fake businesses doing scam shit, then clock out and go home.

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          10 hours ago

          Of course they’re poor bastards, people work as scammers out of desperation, not because it provides great job satisfaction.

          I’m not trying to shame you for enjoying scambaiting content, I get it, but it does feel exploitative to me, personally, but I respect your differing opinion.

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            46 minutes ago

            They make a shit ton of money. Didn’t he even get there actual payout of one of the scam centers? Like WAY above average.