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Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/phillipines_cyberslavery_gang_busted/
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A video of the raid on the Tarlac Pogo firm posted last Thursday shows the nation’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) entering what appears to be an office housing rows of workers in front of computers.
Those who failed to meet quotas were physically harmed, deprived of sleep or locked in their rooms, executive director of Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), Gilberto Cruz, told local media.
During the raid, the authorities seized live ammunition and guns from the ten-hectare compound, located approximately 60 miles north of Manila.
The “gaming company” that ran the operation – which went by Zun Yuan Technology Incorporated – maintains a meager website that may not initially set off alarm bells and appears more targeted toward recruiting staff than clients.
According to a report [PDF] from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), “the development of scalable and digitized solutions has supercharged the criminal business environment across Southeast Asia.”
Unfortunately, such measures to address cyber fraud operations have only pushed them from Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam into places like Lao PDR and parts of Myanmar.
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