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Jalil Muyeke at his home in Uganda in July 2024. His captors in Myanmar ran what are called ‘pig butchering’ schemes, in which fraudsters build trust through a fake romance or friendship. — The New York Times
Hundreds of thousands of people have been lured into scamming operations. In Muyeke’s case, he was ensnared through a promising job opportunity. After a harrowing journey spanning thousands of miles, he was trapped inside one of the hundreds of compounds in South-East Asia, often controlled by Chinese organised crime rings and set up for industrial-scale scamming.
Once the victims do, their investment seemingly grows, encouraging them to send more. But they can’t cash out – the money is in an account the scammer controls. After they landed, a Thai police officer, who already had their photos, was waiting for them and stamped their passports. He pointed to the exit, where they found their driver waiting.Using a translation app, the driver told them they’d be driving for an hour, but Muyeke knew Bangkok was just minutes from the airport. Trapped in the back seat with no mobile service, he began to panic.
The next morning, Muyeke was led to a manager’s office and given a contract he couldn’t read, because it was in Chinese. Because they had paid his travel costs, he was told, he would be paid US$400 a month for six months, not the US$2,500 promised. The woman whose photo was used for the fashion designer character, from Uzbekistan, was also drawn into the scammer’s den through a fake job offer. Known as “the model” inside the compound, she was available for video and voice calls and other photos.
His managers disciplined him for declining productivity with hundreds of pushups, extra hours and runs around the parking lot. Having done some research before his release, Muyeke contacted the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental group. After an agonising wait for a callback, the organisation suggested a hotel where they would be safe.
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