Criminal gangs increasingly lure people to work in online scam centres, UN migration agency warns

GENEVA (AP); The UN's migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people — many of them educated English speakers — to work in online scam centres, and the caseload is growing.

The International Organization for Migration says victims are often lured by fake job advertisements — mostly through social media — promising work abroad, only to get locked up, have their identity documents seized, and forced through violence, threats and 'debt bondage' to participate in the online scams.