Jimu news reporter Zhan Ju
Lured by an acquaintance with a high salary, but having lost his personal freedom after learning of the scam, it was too late.
Since 2020, the same plot has been staged in Cambodia again and again. These Chinese who went to Cambodia were confined to the so-called "parks" in Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and other places, and were coerced by the gendarmes and property owners hired by The Chinese boss to "cheat" on the Internet through "pig killing plates" and other means, and the money of Chinese people around the world was defrauded into the company's account.
In the company, those who did not complete their performance, disobeyed, and fled were all beaten by electric batons and electric shocks.
Many of these people are minors.
The streets of Cambodia
In order to rescue them, in the past two years, Chen Baorong, the leader of the local Chinese organization Sino-Cambodian Volunteer Team, rescued the deceived Chinese through various means; when these victims could not return home due to the epidemic, he joined hands with Chinese bosses to provide free accommodation and help them find jobs, becoming their most trusted person.
Today, those who have the privilege of escaping from the "park" are currently unable to return to China because of circuit-breaker flights and expensive air tickets; and for the sake of considerable "head fees", there are still middlemen who are willing to take risks and continue to carry out deceptive activities in China.
Lured into Cambodia by salary adjustment to engage in fraud
When I received a call from my fellow villagers, 16-year-old Yuan Zhipeng (pseudonym) and his girlfriend were studying tattoos and makeup in Xi'an.
"Hubei villagers said that a friend opened a tattoo shop and the treatment was good, so he let us go to Shanghai and then flew to Shantou, Guangdong." Yuan Zhipeng recalled that after the two arrived in Guangdong, at more than 9 p.m. on August 18, 2021, the compatriots took them by car to Raoping County, Chaozhou, saying that they would go out to sea at night to fish and entertain.
After walking on the sea in a small boat for 3 hours, the two were suddenly asked to change to a large ship. "It didn't feel right at the time, there were about sixty or seventy people on the big ship." Although somewhat resistant, late at night on the high seas, the two had nowhere to go. Finally, after 7 days of sea voyage, on August 25, the ship docked.
At that time, seeing some unfamiliar words and languages on some signs on the shore, Yuan Zhipeng understood that he had gone abroad. They had just come ashore when a luxury van drove up and took the two away.
Also in August, Ye Qiang (pseudonym) from Guizhou was also tricked into Cambodia.
Ye Qiang went to Guiyang with a few friends in March last year to look for a job. An old friend called him and asked him to go to a company in Nanning, Guangxi, for an interview, with a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan and more than 10,000 yuan for a good job. After Ye Qiang went to Nanning for more than 10 days, one night, a friend suddenly informed them to go to the company by car to arrange accommodation, and said that they could go directly to work the next day.
"At that time, we wondered, why did we have to leave for the big night?" After getting on the bus, Ye Qiang found that the vehicle was getting more and more remote, so he asked to get off. But at this time, the people in the car have been controlled, and the organizers also told him that if he wanted to get off the car, he would have to pay tens of thousands of yuan for these few days of travel expenses and other expenses.
Later, after getting off the bus at the Border of Guangxi, the group hiked for several hours in the deep mountains and old forests to Vietnam. After another five or six days of private cars, buses, boats and other means of transport, Ye Qiang was sent to Bodhisattva Province, Cambodia, to engage in wire fraud.
The ransom of 300,000 was eventually resold
Cheng Ling (pseudonym), also from Guizhou, came to the Bodhisattva in the same car as Ye Qiang, but the two sides did not know each other.
The vehicle came to the fraud park, and Cheng Ling was taken into the company as soon as she got out of the car and confiscated her personal mobile phone. Here, she was asked to attract fans and pull groups through Douyin, and then download the APP they pushed to do tasks, and encourage the other party to charge money into the account, working 12-14 hours a day.
Chat screenshots
"If you don't obey, you will be beaten, you can't connect with the outside world, you can't stand it at all." Cheng Ling told reporters that the park where the fraud company is located is heavily guarded, and the local gun gendarmes and property personnel hired by the Chinese boss are managed, and they cannot complete their performance, do not comply with the regulations, and are threatened to send them to prostitution, or be beaten and shocked.
In her spare time, Cheng Ling secretly went to the park clinic to buy sleeping pills, ready to take medicine at any time to leave this world. Later, Cheng Ling learned that not only her, but also several girlfriends of the company had also prepared sleeping pills.
In the fraud company, Ye Qiang was locked up in a small black room and was also electrocuted once by an electric baton.
Ye Qiang comes from a mountain village in Guizhou, grew up with his grandfather, and dropped out of school before finishing primary school. In his twenties, he has not been very good at typing on the computer, so that he can type very slowly when chatting fraudulently. For this reason, Ye Qiang was locked in a small room and was electrocuted by an electric baton, "This is so painful, I was already crying out at that time." ”
Ye Qiang said that the staff first intimidated, and began to use electric batons after a long time.
"We went to know that it was a scam and didn't want to do it, we wanted to go." When he first arrived at the company, Yuan Zhipeng wanted to leave with his girlfriend, who knew that the company asked them for a ransom of 300,000 yuan, and wanted to pay the company for the travel expenses from China. However, when the family struggled to gather money to call, Yuan Zhipeng and his girlfriend did not get personal freedom, but were resold by the company for $40,000 to the next wire fraud company.
Some people have managed to escape by all means
In August 2021, 30-year-old Gu Quan (pseudonym) was introduced by a friend to Cambodia to work in video production.
Unexpectedly, after working in the local area for a month and a half, before he set off for Thailand to do business, he was kidnapped by a local agent who handled passports and visas, and then sold to a fraud company.
At about 1 a.m. that day, the visa broker asked him to go downstairs to get his passport. After going downstairs, a Land Rover off-road vehicle was waiting for him on the side of the road, and Gu Quan got into the car and was controlled by the gendarmes with guns and confiscated the mobile phone. The occupants of the car told him he had been sold by an agent for $18,000.
"I discussed with them, gave them $20,000, and let me go, but the other party said that it was a long-term relationship with the agent and would not release people." After a six-hour drive, we arrived at the Sihanoukville White Sands Park, 200 kilometers away.
Gu Quan said that the park has four buildings, each of which is about 8 stories high. The company he was sold to was on the fourth floor of one of the buildings, with more than 100 people.
"If you don't listen to the company and stay restless, you'll end up being resold to the next company." Because he did not want to work, he always tried to find a way to escape, and also secretly bought a mobile phone to contact the outside world, Gu Quan was beaten many times in the company, until he was resold.
After arriving at the second company, Gu Quan contacted friends through the company's mobile phone on the third day, found Chen Baorong, the leader of the Local Chinese Non-Governmental Organization China-Cambodia Volunteer Team, and was finally successfully rescued on December 17, 2021 through local police and multi-party coordination.
In October of that year, yuan zhipeng and his girlfriend saw the information of the China-Cambodia volunteer team when they used the company's special mobile phone to brush the video, and took advantage of the fact that the company staff did not pay attention, dialed Chen Baorong's phone, and after coordination, they were successfully rescued.
The above-mentioned Ye Qiang and Cheng Lin successfully escaped by pretending to be ill and going to the hospital to see a doctor, and later concentrated in the hotel arranged by Chen Baorong.
The Sino-Cambodian volunteer team rescued and resettled the Chinese people
To rescue these people from the fraud park, Chen Baorong spent a lot of effort.
Chen Baorong, 48, from Puchun, Hubei Province, went to Cambodia twenty years ago and has become a well-known local entrepreneur.
Chen Baorong (left)
According to Chen Baorong, in November 2020, on his way to the local embassy to change his passport, he found three people running over for help. Only after learning more about it did he know that these three people were from Shandong, Yunnan and Anhui, and ran out of fraud companies. From the mouths of those three compatriots, Chen Baorong was shocked to hear for the first time that Chinese would be beaten if they did not work in these enterprises, and they would be arbitrarily priced and bought and sold.
The three of them were taken back to their friend's hotel to settle down, and Chen Baorong also helped them buy a plane ticket to send them back to China.
Since then, the rescue operation has begun. Through his influence, Chen Baorong has continuously coordinated with the local government and the police to help deceived Chinese people escape from the fraud company, and has rescued more than 300 people so far. In September last year, the China-Cambodia Volunteer Team to help and rescue compatriots was established, with Chen Baorong as the team leader.
Tickets for flights back home are hard to come by
"In the beginning, we could save one and send one away." Chen Baorong said that since 2020, domestic airlines have been very supportive of the rescue work, and the rescued people have flown home very smoothly. However, after the development of the epidemic in the past six months, the flight circuit breaker, there are very few flights back to China, and the price of air tickets has risen to 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, plus the cost of home isolation may require hundreds of thousands of yuan.
These people cannot return home for a short period of time, and after they are rescued, they will need a place to resettle them.
Chen Baorong told the Jimu News reporter that because many of the rescued people were tricked into coming to Cambodia by the Chinese, and some people were directly kidnapped to the fraud park, these people will not easily trust anyone after being rescued, and they are in danger of being snatched back at any time. The only person they trusted was Chen Baorong himself.
In order to resettle these people, Chen Baorong and his friends all stood up, and the Chinese bosses who owned four or five hotels took the initiative to let these compatriots live in; in the later period, the hotels could not survive, and domestic friends continued to provide financial support.
At the same time, with the ability to work, Chen Baorong helped them find jobs, first let them support themselves, and then waited for the opportunity to return to China.
Fraud companies are popping up everywhere
In Cambodia, when it comes to parks, everyone knows that this is where online fraud is carried out.
A local insider told Jimu News that the country, including Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Bodhisattva and other places, basically all the parks are fraud parks, and fraudulent enterprises are concentrated in the park and bloom everywhere. The size of the company varies from more than 10 people to more than 160 people, and the bosses are basically Chinese.
Cambodian Night Market
In order to attract more people to carry out fraud, these companies publicly announced that they would buy employees through 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars a head. The huge lure of money has made some middlemen desperately take risks at home, smuggling them out of the country by cheating and controlling their personal freedom; it also makes Chinese living in Cambodia likely to face the danger of being kidnapped and sold at any time.
After many people are kidnapped, they will also be asked to transfer all the money in the bank card, and then contact the family, and empty the family's money, once someone put together 1 million yuan and failed to obtain personal freedom.
At present, the local network fraud company is no longer a fraud in the traditional sense, but basically a "pig killing plate", that is, through the way of online dating, step by step to induce victims to spend money and invest.
Gu Quan, who has experienced two different companies, introduced that in the former company, it is to send a free rice cooker as bait, let the victim join the WeChat group, gradually chat to gain trust; and then get a refund by releasing a WeChat signal to pay attention to the task, and later want to complete the task need to charge money to the platform step by step, and then bet on the platform, once the money arrives at the platform, it can no longer be returned.
At another company, Gu Quan was packaged as a rich and handsome man, or a man with a successful career. He added some women through the national K song, oasis, little red book, Momo, Tantan and other software, chatted with them about their feelings, and then let them invest in various virtual coins after getting acquainted.
"In fact, these coins are really virtual coins, there will be no income, the money invested in them will not be returned to them, as long as the coins are bought, it is the company's money."
Looking forward to returning to the motherland at an early date
The 42-year-old Lin Zhong (pseudonym) was originally doing jade business in China and had a good life.
Four years ago, a friend said that he could go to Cambodia to engage in investment and make a lot of money, and Lin Zhong immediately came to Cambodia. In the end, Lin Zhong did not see any projects, but was encouraged by his friends to bet at the local casino, and slowly lost all the money he earned from the jade business.
Later, Lin Zhong was tricked into going to a fraud company to commit fraud. In order to redeem his life freedom, Lin Zhong had to give his daughter to a female staff member of the local fraud park in exchange for raising her. After leaving the park, he was placed in a hotel by Chen Baorong.
According to the local Chinese according to the rough statistics of the distribution of the park, the number of Chinese currently gathered in Cambodia to engage in fraud industry is staggering. Some of them are lured, and some of them are actively staying in the company to commit fraud.
The volunteer team donated supplies
Judging from the people rescued by Chen Baorong, the main people who were deceived abroad came from Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces, and there were also a few in Hubei and Hunan. A large number of them are minors, many of whom are poor or born into single-parent families, some of whom have not yet completed primary school, and most of whom have been deceived by acquaintances.
The volunteer team visits the children
From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, the China-Cambodia volunteer team had just rescued more than 60 Chinese minors, the youngest being a girl born in 2007 and now 15 years old.
Once these people enter the scam business in Cambodia, it may mean that the entire family is hollowed out, and one person will plunge the whole family into the abyss.
Those who were rescued were lucky. Yuan Zhipeng's mother once told him on the phone that no matter how much money he put in, he could slowly repay it in the future, as long as people were safe, they were lucky.
On the afternoon of February 10, on The Island of Gaolong in Cambodia, Gu Quan was trying to learn diving techniques. At the recommendation of Chen Baorong, he is preparing for the diving instructor certificate and waiting for the opportunity to return to China when the opportunity is ripe.
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