Inside the 'living hell' of Cambodia's scam operations

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 10, 2022 12:09 am

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia: Trafficked, beaten and locked upfar from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodiaforced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.

Covid-19 shutdowns had left the builder out of work, so whenhe heard he could earn $2,000 a month on a construction project in Cambodia, hejumped at the chance.

A worker carries what seems to be a small refrigerator as he clears a building in the Chinatown district of the city of Sihanoukville in Preah Sihanouk province, southwestern Cambodia on Sept. 25, 2022.

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