‘Modern slavery’: Indonesians in clutches of scam syndicates

JAKARTA: Indonesian fruit seller Budi was seeking better prospects when he signed up for an IT job in Cambodia. But he found himself detained in a heavily guarded compound where he was forced to carry out online scams.

“When I arrived there, I was told to read a script,” Budi, not his real name, told AFP on condition of anonymity. “It turned out that we were asked to work as scammers.”