Thai teen says he threw himself out of a window to escape Cambodia’s brutal scam farms

By Poppy McPherson and Napat Wesshasartar

Bangkok (Reuters) -Kambodia, tortured, tortured and forced to defraud online foreigners, a Thai young man, last year’s Southeast Asian country’s prison-like fraudulent compounds to escape from the eighth floor window, he said he barely survived.

18 -year -old Reuters, who just wanted to be defined under the name of Louis, told Chinese criminals that he had endured brutal conditions for about a year as well as children under the age of 13.

He said that the workers who have been traffic lived like “slaves”, that they were forced to work in buildings surrounded by high walls and prickly wires from early morning to midnight and that they were protected by men with electric batons.

The transnational fraud industry appeared in Southeast Asia during her pandem, and it is believed that people around the world have produced billions of dollars a year for an organized crime because they were defrauded from life savings.

Louis spoke with Reuters in the Thai capital of Bangk, a day before the London -based Rights Group International Amnesty International, the Cambodian government by Cyber ​​Crime Gangs, “intentionally ignoring the human rights violations of” intentionally ignoring “.

Reuters could not confirm Louis’ account independently, but the details, including many groups, including the United Nations agencies, matched with other accounts with survivors.

Louis refused to share his full name, ready to interview Reuters TV.

A high -wage job

Louis, a soft -talked teenager, said that when a woman contacted her on Facebook, she was looking for a job, she was 17 years old, offering her a good paid role, food and accommodation.

He convinced him to travel to Bangkok for the first time when he left the rural house, but he was later told to go to the border where he was taken to one of the at least 53 scam compounds described by amnesty in Cambodia.

Louis started to work using Deepfake video software to send Thai women to send money.

He said that he was “felt dominant” and a week later, another compound that looks like a “prison” near the Vietnam border.

TO ESCAPE

In a room with eight Thai men and women, Louis said that at least one million baht (about $ 30,000) per month was ordered, and when they were late, they were shocked by electric batons unless they rest too much or if they did not meet quotas.

Louis said he decided to escape after he was limited to a dark room. He broke through a window, fell to several floors and shredded his chin.

“My mouth was full of blood, everywhere and my teeth were broken. Then I love it,” he said.

The bosses robbed him naked, but took him to the hospital. From there he managed to return home.

Louis told people looking for a job to avoid going to Thailand to Cambodia.

“For your own security… You can never go back.”

(Reporting by Poppy McPherson and Napat Wesshasartar; Editing by Kate Mayberry)