"The young man was coerced by a criminal gang to smuggle himself into a recruitment advertisement because of his credulity, and was kept in captivity in Cambodia for half a year, during which he was drawn 7 times, a total of 21 bags, and the blood was almost squeezed dry..."
Recently, the Cambodian "blood slave" incident has brought the recruitment platform and the online fraud industry into the public eye again.
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The boy was taken captive to Cambodia as a "blood slave"
Embassy response: The police have opened an investigation
On the evening of February 16, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia issued a notice saying that on February 12, cambodia's First Hospital of China and Cambodia admitted a Chinese man surnamed Li who was coerced into smuggling to Cambodia by a criminal gang because of his credulous trust in false recruitment advertisements on the same city's internet, and was illegally detained by online gambling and telecommunications fraud gangs in Chinatown, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and was repeatedly drawn with large doses of blood, and his life was in danger.
After learning about it, the Embassy in Cambodia attached great importance to it and asked the hospital to make every effort to treat the patients. At present, the police of Cambodia's Sihanoukville Province have officially filed a case in this regard, and the police of China and Cambodia are coordinating to carry out relevant investigation work and strive to solve the case as soon as possible.
"How did Li come to Cambodia?" How long have you been detained? What kind of coercion was suffered during this period? "The Cambodian blood slave incident has aroused the attention of the whole network as soon as it was released.
According to the Beijing Youth Daily's "BeiqingShen once", the victim Li mou saw the recruitment information of a Guangxi nightclub in May 58 in may 2021, and after participating in the interview, he was sold to Chinatown in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, from September last year.
Li moumou was tortured by electric batons, handcuffs, hanging beats, soldering irons and forced blood draws for disobeying the online investment company to engage in fraudulent work.
In the past six months, the man surnamed Li was drawn a total of 7 times, about every month or so two bottles of blood, each bottle of about 350 ml. Later, due to severe ischemia, the whole body is edema, and the physical state is close to shock.
After many days of treatment, Li's condition has improved.
A "bloody case" caused by recruitment
For half a year, the torture of being used as a "blood bag" made the boy once deeply desperate, although he escaped, but it is clear that Li is not the only victim, and the fermentation of the Cambodian "blood slave" incident not only made the network fraud industry enter the public eye again, but also made the knife deliverer behind it surface.
It all started with a job advertisement.
The victim, Li Mou, mentioned that he saw the recruitment information on the 58 same city.
In this regard, 58.com told the Blue Whale financial reporter that 58.com learned of media reports that "the boy was abducted to Cambodia looking for a job, and became a 'blood bag' because he refused to commit fraud", and the relevant information mentioned the same city network.
58.com. Expressed deep sympathy for the victim's suffering, and at the same time urgently communicated with the relevant departments, learning that the case was under continuous investigation, and at present, 58.com has not found any recruitment information that mentions the history of the company.
All along, 58.com attaches great importance to information review, and constantly strengthens the platform side's qualification review of enterprises to settle in, to ensure that enterprises are legally registered, and to ensure that users get true and effective recruitment information.
58.com will also fully cooperate with the police and other relevant departments to resolutely fight against any illegal and criminal acts to the end, resolutely protect and safeguard the rights and interests of users, and defend justice.
According to public information, 58.com was established in 2005, and its business covers recruitment, real estate, automobile, second-hand, local life services and finance.
As early as ten years ago, most people were most impressed by the slogan "58.com, a magical website". Today, the platform seems to be losing trust in the hearts of users.
As a classified information platform, in recent years, the reputation of 58.com among users is not high. Under the topic of Weibo social media, netizens have used words such as "bad deeds, false information, and fraudulent platforms" to describe this platform. After seeing the victim's experience of being deceived, some people even posted their experience of being deceived by false advertising in 58 city.
More than 9,000 complaint records
58 The same city is difficult to solve the dilemma of "false information"
In addition to the low reputation, there are many complaint records about 58 cities on the complaint platform.
The reporter's inquiry found that on the black cat complaint platform, there were more than 9,000 complaints about 58 same city. In addition to complaints about the release of false recruitment information, there are also complaints of a series of chaos such as "false publicity, consumer deception, non-refund, arbitrary charging, and platform shirking responsibility".
Some users said that they were looking for a job in the same city as 58, and then went to the offline interview to pay 600 yuan of fees, and did not give any work arrangements for the next two months, and refused to refund the money.
Similar cases are not in the minority, to sum up, some recruitment information on the platform, in the name of physical examination fees, training, etc. to defraud job seekers of money.
In addition, some users said that landing in 58 cities to search for rental information, a large number of false rental information, a large number of false rental listings, misleading consumers, wasting a lot of time.
From job hunting to renting to maintenance and other information, even if there are thousands of ways to cheat, its essence is to rely on false information to deceive, which shows that the platform's release threshold and review mechanism need to be improved and improved.
In the face of problems such as false information on the platform, 58.com has also been interviewed by the regulatory authorities more than once.
In the past two years, 58 Tongcheng has been interviewed by the Beijing Municipal Housing and Construction Commission due to problems such as illegal listings;
Interviewed by Hefei Market Supervision Bureau due to irregularities in the price of moving services;
Interviewed by the Consumer Protection Commission of Jiangsu Province on suspicion of acquiescence in the sale of counterfeit goods;
Because of suspected release of false car sources and other issues, he was interviewed by the Sichuan Provincial Consumer Commission...
Although he has been interviewed many times, the dilemma of false information in 58.com has never been solved. It is foreseeable that if the pain point of "false information" cannot be fundamentally solved, the reputation of 58.com among users will be difficult to repair.
Regarding the false advertisements on the Internet, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia also said that Chinese citizens who want to work in Cambodia follow formal channels and should not trust the false advertisements of high-paying recruitment. In the event of fraud, kidnapping, restriction of personal freedom, etc., it is necessary to try to report the case to the Cambodian police as soon as possible and inform the embassy of the situation, so that the police can file a case for investigation in a timely manner.