Cybercrime mafias have an army of more than 250,000 slaves subjected to torture, extortion and rape

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Cybercrime mafias have an army of more than 250,000 slaves subjected to torture, extortion and rape

Mohammed Arshad, of Indian origin, is 34 years old. He was contacted by social networks to offer him a “good job”, of about 1,000 euros per month, in a technology company in Laos. When he arrived, he came across reality. “My passport was confiscated and they refused to return it to me until they paid about 100,000 euros or to work for free for a year,” he says. His mission, scamming with false identities over the Internet with devastating conseq…