Tag: human trafficking victims

[ad_1] Huang is now haunted by debt -- the target of a scheme operated by international crime groups that force human trafficking victims to do online scamming work. Once carefree and comfortable, Huang is now haunted by debt -- the target of a scheme operated by international crime groups that force human trafficking victims to do online scamming work. She is among a growing number of Chinese people lured into handing over large sums of cash by scammers posing as potential love interests. Known as "pig butchering", the schemes are operated by crime syndicates in Southeast Asia suspected of abducting Chinese citizens and others, and forcing them to swindle their compatriots. The scammers groom targets for weeks before cajoling them into ploughing money into fake investment plat...