Dossier
debt bondage
Coverage of debt bondage in the Nexus archive.
- Criminal gangs increasingly lure people to work in online scam centers, UN migration agency warns
The UN's migration agency warns that criminal networks are trafficking hundreds of thousands of people, including educated English speakers, into online scam centers via fake job ads. Victims are forced to participate in scams through violence, threats, and debt bondage, with losses in East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand reaching $114 billion last year.