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Cambodia, an ancient civilization located in the Indochina Peninsula, has a long history and splendid culture, but it has a lot of fate. In recent times, several wars have caused deep harm to Cambodia's society and economy, and it has always been an economically backward student among the five countries in Central and South China. In the new century, it is easy to meet development opportunities, open up the country, and welcome tourists and foreign investment.
On the surface, the starting point is low, the potential is huge, and it must be getting better and better. Until recently, Cambodia's rule of law was not in place, bandits were in charge, and a large number of cases of fraud and detention exploded overnight. Cast a shadow over the beautiful smiling Buddha kingdom.
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Pig killing plate
As a dark product of the telecommunications era, the "pig killing plate" is one of the most rampant fraud methods in recent years. According to the past cognition, the pig killing plate is mainly under the guise of love, luring the victim who is carried away by fake love into a trap, and finally the people and money are empty. Furthermore, everything uses false information to lure the victim, and after defrauding trust, squeeze the victim's finances, which is also collectively known as the pig killing plate.
Pigs are so delicious and innocent, why carry the pot of fraud? Mainly this kind of fraudster, really with the term "pig" as the term to carry out step-by-step execution.
Pig killing plate script, internal use
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The first is to build a "pigsty", that is, to carefully package a fake company, or a trustworthy group. Fraudsters often steal photos of others on the Internet, cooperate with hotels, famous cars and other assistance, disguise themselves as "successful people", and use the excuse of expanding their careers to attract people's attention.
If an unknown person is attracted by the information bait and begins to contact the fraudster, it is called "raising pigs". Fraudsters will elaborate their words, respond to the urgent needs of the deceived people, offer hypocritical care and support, step by step to gain the trust of the victims, and wait for them to fall into the trap.
Finally, "killing pigs" means that the victim falls into a trap and loses money.
The above is the basic process of a "set of killing" chains. It can be seen from this that these scammers do have a strong ability to manipulate words, and many victims are too deep into the drama and make wrong judgments. Even the frequent warnings from the police and the government cannot dissuade victims who fall into spiritual traps from following in.
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Why Cambodia?
Cambodia, which is not far from China, according to its location advantages, attracts various Chinese businessmen to settle in, which is a very reasonable strategy. In recent years, the harvest has also been very rich, and the commercial resources brought by rich businessmen, in addition to the rise of economic parks, together with real estate, commerce and tourism have also prospered.
Unfortunately, Cambodia's beautiful image as a hot land for investment is actually a different situation. The Cambodian government has not established a sound legal system and a clean police force to restrain the influx of wrongdoing. Even go along with it, turn a blind eye, and let the money monsters act arbitrarily, as long as the government can get a piece of the pie, and even make a big deal of it as an umbrella, no matter how much conscience he earns.
Figure: Cambodia Real Estate Information Network
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Since 2020, Cambodia's scam market has grown in size. Cambodian fraudsters don't want feelings, they want flesh. Yes, men can do cheap labor, women can become sex slaves, and the early victims are mainly Chinese mainland, after all, the population is dense, and the proportion of deceived is also considerable. Many people have a dream of gold panning, and it is too late to be detained by fraudsters. After losing their freedom, victims are often forced to assist them in illegal activities, snowballing to lure more victims into the trap.
If these criminal gangs are short of manpower, they will desperately absorb new blood to join, but this will also expose themselves, so why are they not afraid of being exposed?
The high-profile abduction of people is indeed the difference between telecommunications fraud and ancient methods. The telecommunications network is distributed all over the world, and it is not enough to cast a large net to catch fish, and it is not enough for only a few people. It must also take dozens or even hundreds of people to support a production line of "raising sets and killing". You don't see the fraud syndicate in the Philippines, but even the nanny who cooks and cleans the food is on the side, not to mention the human resources, and the logistics service must keep up.
Therefore, when a group of fraud groups make up small markets, or even large parks, it is clearly written on the recruitment advertisement, eating and staying in the package, enjoying the barber massage karaoke, it is not surprising.
Cambodian job advertisements are very delicate, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false
Figure: Dcard
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Why Taiwan?
Why did the fraud industry, which began to flourish before 2020, drag on until the summer of 2022, and only then did it reveal that there were a large number of Taiwanese people who suffered.
After all, in the beginning, cambodia's fraud industry was mainly aimed at mainland chinese. However, under the massive campaign of persuasion, tens of thousands of people in this industry have been inspired to return to their hometowns, leaving the criminal group facing a serious manpower shortage.
The emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has also disrupted the traditional layout of fraud groups to lock in the mainland. In order to prevent the invasion of diseases, all countries and localities control entry and exit. The current situation of the past hot population flow is no longer there, and this situation does bring difficulties to the fraud industry to abduct victims.
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The fraud industry is short of manpower, and Taiwan Province is the next target
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Thus, Taiwan Province became the next target.
This is why, when Taiwan gradually relaxed its entry and exit management, the black hand behind the scenes also took advantage of the void, and for a time the major online platforms were filled with Cambodian recruitment advertisements, waiting for the fat sheep that fell into the trap.
Under the ravages of the epidemic, many young people in Taiwan Province are depressed, and many young people cannot see the hope of the future, and they are struggling to find opportunities for their livelihood, so they have relaxed their vigilance against the glamorous advertisements on the Internet.
"As long as the salary is high, some people are willing to try", this is the decoy that the fraud group has tried and failed, and when the first person falls into the trap, they use violence to force the first to lure the second, two births, four births, eight ... So divided, it will drag more people into this hell on earth.
Cambodia luxury staff tour, owner you are so kind!
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Finally, when the fraud syndicate found that one of the chains had lost its use value, it demanded a huge ransom from the family under the pretext of releasing people. If the family pays the ransom, they may be able to exchange the freedom of their relatives. There are also those who cannot afford the ransom because of the huge amount of money, and the imprisoned people will continue to be detained and abused by the fraud syndicate until the money is in hand. What's more, they will also resell the victims, send them to worse underground factories or gangs, and coerce them into drug production, drug trafficking, prostitution and gambling, and other work.
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If you want to escape, it is simply an impossible task. Survivors who had luckily escaped have confirmed that the place where they were detained is quite remote, with handcuffs and electric shocks and other torture devices at any time, and the walls are so high that they are difficult to fly. Even if you can wait for the opportunity to escape, you will have no money on your body, no mobile phone, passport, etc., and you will not survive on the street sooner or later.
After fleeing home after 58 days under house arrest in Cambodia, taiwanese youth were trafficked
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Why it is difficult to solve
All this happening in Cambodia caused great panic in society for a time. Experts bluntly said that such a new type of crime can force groups of victims to become perpetrators, and the methods are secret and difficult to detect, which really adds difficulty to combat crime.
In early August, there was a case that shocked the whole of Taiwan, a young indigenous man from Hualien was lured to Cambodia to work as a fraud group, and after losing his freedom, the indigenous youth was forced to follow the script and send invitations to many friends around him, claiming that he had found a way to make money. As a result, the young man was soft-hearted for a while, and when he communicated with his friend, he left a sentence of "you don't come" to wake up his friend. However, he was brutally beaten and killed by Huang Quan, and only a handful of ashes came back, which broke the heart of his family.
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The difficulty of "breaking the roots" is another feature of this new type of fraud. The perpetrators are hiding in overseas countries with chaotic rule of law, and it is difficult for the police to cooperate, even if they have worked hard to rescue a group of victims, or arrest a few snakes, they have only cut off a few tentacles and cannot deal a fatal blow to the core of the criminal group.
This makes the police like a frightened bird, only to send more manpower, waiting for the entry and exit gate at the airport, holding up signs day and night to remind the exiting people to be careful of fraud traps. The police even began to interrogate individual people who went to Cambodia and other countries, and when they found out that they were working abroad, they vigorously persuaded them to rebel, and did not hesitate to detain people on the spot and perform the farce of "robbing people."
Police interrogate people at the airport, and anyone who goes to Cambodia will be stopped
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Among the villagers, various stories have been spread by taking advantage of the situation, including "buying and selling organs" and "the whole group disappeared". Although the police have repeatedly spoken out, they have shown that the number of victims is not thousands, only more than a hundred, there are no whole groups of traffickers, only sporadic cases. However, it is even more obvious that it is very difficult to even find out the truth, so that the whole society talks about Cambodia.
Online news is difficult to distinguish between true and false, causing social panic
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Since ancient times, the exchange also needs to uphold the motto of "opening the door and taking the right path", and now the people expect Cambodia to stop the loss in time and correct the chaos, so that in the process of future development, economic exchanges can truly benefit one party.
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