"Simple job, high salary": unveiling the complexity of scam-forced criminality in Southeast Asia.
Many victims in Southeast Asia have been trapped in pig-butchering schemes in Cambodia during and after the pandemic. As new forms of scam-forced criminality via trafficking in persons operated by Chinese-related syndicates, traffickers use social platforms to pose as job recruiters and post fraudul...
| Publicado en: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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Springer Nature
8/12/2025
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