Everyone knows a scamming story: Somebody rings or texts you, making an attempt to get your private data or asking you to log in to your account. However what you won’t know is that the individual behind that cellphone may very well be somebody who’s been trafficked and enslaved.
A whole lot of 1000’s of persons are trapped in scamming farms throughout Southeast Asia. It’s a multi-billion greenback business, and it’s a chronically underreported story on modern-day slavery.
On this episode:
Mary Ann Jolley, Journalist
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Music composition by Tom Biddle.
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