A fraud factory or fraud park is a collection of large fraud organizations usually involved in human trafficking operations, commonly 6️⃣ found in Southeast Asia (including Cambodia, Myanmar, or Laos) and usually operated by a criminal gang. Fraud factory operators lure 6️⃣ foreign nationals to scam hubs, where they are forced into modern slavery, to scam internet users around the world into 6️⃣ fraudulently buying cryptocurrencies or withdrawing cash, via social media and online dating apps.[1] Trafficking victims' passports are confiscated, and they 6️⃣ are threatened with organ harvesting and forced prostitution if they do not scam sufficiently successfully.
Nomenclature [ edit ]
The term fraud 6️⃣ factory first appeared in a Sydney Morning Herald article about the Southeast Asian scams and human trafficking industry[2] and was 6️⃣ coined by Jan Santiago of Global Anti-Scam Organization (GASO), a victims advocacy group, in describing scamming operations in the region.[3][4]
The 6️⃣ term was used by Kenya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the activity of trafficking victims to Asia where they use 6️⃣ digital media to meet westerners and sell them cryptocurrencies.[5] In Chinese, the term "fraud industrial park" (Chinese: 詐騙園區; pinyin: zhàpiàn 6️⃣ yuánqū; lit. 'fraud park zone') has emerged in reference to these operations.
Organization and ownership [ edit ]