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[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 points 2 years ago

God I hope this happens more frequently. I mean I've heard that there are probably thousands of Malaysians in this kind of situation.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


More than 40 people from Malaysia have been rescued by police in Peru after they fell victim to a human trafficking syndicate operating a telecommunication fraud.

The Malaysians were forced to participate in the so-called “Macau scam”, making calls to companies in Malaysia and Taiwan to demand money while posing as banks, police or justice officials.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry said Peruvian police found the 43 Malaysians after raiding a house in La Molina in the capital Lima on 7 October.

Activists and government officials say hundreds of Malaysians have been lured by lucrative job offers in south-east Asian nations such as Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, only to end up being made to defraud people online with internet romances and cryptocurrency schemes.

The captives had entered Peru in September, lured via social networks with promises of work in casinos in the capital.

Once there, members of a Taiwanese crime group known as Red Dragon took away their passports and cut them off from communication with relatives, police said.


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