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Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery
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Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery

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Along the Thailand-Myanmar border, thousands of trafficked workers are held inside fortified compounds and forced to run online scams targeting victims across Europe, the US, and China. DW's investigative unit travels to the region to document conditions at KK Park, one of the most notorious of these facilities, where those who refuse to work face beatings, torture, or worse. Interviews with survivors and a handful of aid workers who help people escape lay out how the trafficking pipeline operates, luring recruits with fake job offers before trapping them behind guarded walls. The reporters trace the money and the chain of command outward from the compounds, following leads that connect the scam centers to a wider criminal network and, ultimately, to a Chinese Triad boss allegedly profiting from the operation. Ground-level footage from the border areas, survivor testimony, and on-camera tracking of the people running the scheme combine into an account of a multi-million-euro industry built on forced labor, hiding in plain sight along a war-torn frontier.