They scam unsuspecting victims all across the world — but they are victims themselves. Thousands of people are trafficked worldwide into Myanmar's war-torn east, where they are forced to trick people in Europe, the US and China into scam schemes.
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00:00 In this compound on Myanmar's border with Thailand, thousands of people are working
00:07 to trick people in China, the US and Europe out of their savings.
00:12 But the people inside aren't doing so for personal profit.
00:16 They've been trafficked from across the globe and are being forced to work in a scam factory
00:21 in slave-like conditions.
00:24 If there is no client at noon, no lunch.
00:27 If someone checks and you didn't reply to a client, they beat you or make you stand
00:32 for hours.
00:34 Lucas is part of a group that managed to escape a scam factory known as KK Park.
00:41 It's one of around 12 such compounds in this area of Myanmar's Karin State.
00:46 And it's one of the most notorious.
00:48 Security was checking our computers, seeing if we were doing our job or playing.
00:53 We work 17 hours a day.
00:55 No complaints, no holidays, no rest.
00:58 And if we say we want to leave, they tell us they will sell us or kill us.
01:04 So they did what they were told.
01:07 Make contact with people on the internet, win their trust and convince them to invest
01:12 in fake cryptocurrency sites.
01:15 Once the victims have sent enough money, the website is shut down and their money gone.
01:22 This sophisticated form of scamming is called pig butchering.
01:27 And the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates such scams generate more revenue
01:32 than the drug trade in Southeast Asia.
01:36 KK Park alone makes tens of millions of euros a month, apparently enabled by soldiers of
01:42 Myanmar's border guard and on the backs of helpless victims of human trafficking.
01:47 His last message says, "We are in a bunker after the river."
01:50 I don't know what's down the end of that river.
01:54 On the Thai side of the border, a team of aid workers is on a mission to help them escape.
02:01 Timing is critical.
02:04 Victims are sometimes transferred in taxis to other compounds via Thailand because the
02:09 roads there are faster and safer.
02:11 That's when Judah and Michelle act.
02:13 We're looking for a taxi with a license plate 95, yellow and blue, coming up on that side
02:18 of the road.
02:20 It's a dangerous mission.
02:22 They don't know if armed traffickers are in the car.
02:25 They turn down the side street.
02:29 OK, pull over, pull over, pull over.
02:33 Reverse into that spot.
02:38 This time they're lucky.
02:39 There are no armed traffickers in sight.
02:42 There's no opposition from the taxi driver.
02:44 Judah and Michelle manage to usher the group into their car.
02:51 My name's Judah.
02:52 Nice to meet you.
02:55 The group are brought to a safe house for a much needed rest.
03:00 The next step will be dealing with immigration authorities.
03:04 Not an easy experience.
03:07 And I hope I can go back to my country and find a job that I was graduated for, to start
03:13 a new life.
03:15 Aaron and Lucas were eventually recognised as victims of human trafficking and repatriated
03:21 to their home country.
03:23 But thousands of victims are still trapped at KK Park and other scam factories somewhere
03:28 on the Myanmar-Thailand border.
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