Human Trafficking Victims forced to commit cryptocurrency scams in Myanmar and Cambodia

A new humanitarian crisis, where employees are forced to become scammers and are not allowed to leave. Tens of thousands of people from Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, China, the Philippines and elsewhere in the region have been forced into cyberfraud and cryptocurrency scam human trafficking rings. The intent of the criminal bosses being to defraud people around the world out of millions of dollars. Trafficking Victim resistance is met with physical violence, food deprivation, or worse. Chinese and Cambodian criminal syndicates have spent the pandemic years perfecting an elaborate "romance-meets-investment" fraud called Shāzhūpán (also known as "pig butchering" scams). 12 Filipinos were recently rescued from a Chinese Mafia-run cryptocurrency scam human trafficking ring in Myanmar. Philippines Senator Risa Hontiveros spoke on this November 21st, during Senate Session 29 of the Philippine Government. In this recent case, the Filipino victims were forced by threats of physical violence, coercion, and a lack of food to contact people online and entice them to invest funds in fraudulent cryptocurrency sites. According to one of the 12 victims who were recently rescued, there are 31 other Filipinos who may still need to be rescued as of the time of this writing, November 29th. it was later revealed that Myanmar in particular is attempting to establish an all-Filipino trafficked cryptocurrency scam syndicate. The Government of the Philippines is said to be engaged in preventing such trafficking with a Tier 1 TVPA (Trafficking Victims Protection Act's) status, and is reportedly coordinating with other appropriate agencies as expected. Tens of thousands of people from China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and elsewhere in the region have been similarly victimized. Phony job ads such as quality control, call centers, offshore gaming operators, and other customer service jobs entice them into working in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, where the Chinese Mofia criminal syndicates have set up cryptocurrency cyberfraud operations. From the new locations, the trafficked victims are forced to create fake social media apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Telegram and Tinder in order to use psychological manipulation tactics to build false relationships, sometimes romantic in nature, with cryptocurrency investors. These crime syndicates frequently target both recruiting and victimizing women in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines due to both emerging middle classes, and increased proficiency in certain skill sets. The list of “Pig Butchering” prerequisite skills often recruited by these crime syndicates include: proficiency in the Chinese and/or English Language, Microsoft Office, Social Networking and other Computer skills, and recently unemployed or dealing with economic hardship due to the Pandemic. Some of these victims are later bought or sold on Telegram (ex: White Shark Telegram) and other messaging groups. Both the pandemic crisis and a ban on online gambling in places like Cambodia have directly led to a proficient adaptability of these criminal mobster-run enterprises to become vectors of cyber and cryptocurrency scams via illegal human trafficking. “Redemption fees” can be paid directly to the traffickers to release someone, but going rates are as high as $20,000-$30,000. Trafficked victims who become more complacent over time are rewarded for surpassing their supervisors (controllers) preset scam-level targets in line with the face value of the targeted asset. More freedoms, food, money, and control over other trafficked victims are then given to those who met their quota. There are even known establishments in Cambodia such as Victory Paradise Resort where an estimated 50% of the victims are in a psychological “stolkholm syndrome” if you will and remain at "high-class" scam centers working... voluntarily. To help validate the claims of corruption, one of the scam centers- the White Sand Palace Hotel - is directly opposite the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's summer residence. He is the longest-serving head of government of Cambodia, and one of the longest-serving leaders in the world. Suddenly, trafficked victims go from applying at a customer service job to a financial group to canceling all their life's plans trapped under forced labor, then they break. Fight-Flight-or-Accept. Chinese-Cambodia Charity Team is a strong volunteer-run group that, until recently, was one of the only groups helping scam center victims 'on-the-ground' in Cambodia. Rescued victims will spend days with a guide hired by rescue activists traveling through rice paddies, sugar cane plantations and jungle sometimes being directed away from landmines placed more than 40 years ago during Cambodia’s civil war. “There is no un-scammable person,” it read. “Only scripts that don’t fit.” ~ From a "Pig-Butchering" Handbook Donations: ETH: 0x09690a5f3186f19633c45cb1a7c495b10e780b0f