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Online Fraud Relies on a Horrifying Slave Labor Complex

Summary by Jacobin
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. A group of Chinese nationals who were arrested during a police raid on suspicion of running an online love scam syndicate in Batam, in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia on August 29, 2023. (STR…

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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. A group of Chinese nationals who were arrested during a police raid on suspicion of running an online love scam syndicate in Batam, in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia on August 29, 2023. (STR…

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Jacobin broke the news in on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
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