US EditionHuman Trafficking on the Rise as Online Scam Hubs Go Global
- Interpol reported on June 30, 2025, that human trafficking-fueled online scam centers have expanded globally across all continents.
- This growth stems from scam operations that began in Southeast Asia and now exploit AI and deceptive methods to lure victims into forced online fraud.
- Victims from 66 countries are held captive in compounds, often subjected to violence and ransom demands while traffickers conduct cyberfraud targeting worldwide victims.
- Data shows 74% of victims were trafficked to Southeast Asian centers, and a 2024 Interpol-led operation uncovered dozens of coerced cases, including raids in the Philippines and Namibia.
- Interpol urges a coordinated international response, emphasizing stronger information exchange and partnerships with NGOs and technology firms to disrupt these interconnected criminal networks.
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Online Fraud Relies on a Horrifying Slave Labor Complex
Discussion of cyberfraud tends to focus on people who are cheated out of their money by scammers. But this vastly lucrative industry also relies on the forced labor of those who have been trafficked to work in prisonlike compounds in Southeast Asia.
Interpol is warning of a spike in human trafficking linked to online fraud, saying it is a global crisis involving more than 100,000 victims from 66 countries around the world.
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World NewsHuman trafficking on the rise as online scam hubs go global
International police body Interpol says scam centers that use human trafficking victims to carry out their crimes have gone global. Once limited to Southeast Asia, the criminal model is spreading — and uses AI.
Forced Fraud: The Financial Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims. Social Sciences
Forced Fraud: The Financial Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims. Social Sciences sthyberg Thu, 07/03/2025 - 11:45 In the Media Dyson College of Arts and Science Professor Michael Schidlow publishes new research on the financial exploitation of human trafficking victims in the International Journal of Social Sciences. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/7/398 Contains Video No In The Media International Journal of Social Sciences School …
(Dan Tri) - Bad guys use tricks to promote themselves as working abroad, bringing people to Laos and Myanmar to "do light work, high salary" but in reality they sell them to fraudulent companies.
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