"Within hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer service agent, Duncan Okindo knew something was wrong. The 26-year-old had sold his cattle, borrowed money from friends and used his savings to pay a recruitment agency 200,000 Kenyan shillings (1,150). I felt it would be good to go outside [the country] and look for money to take care of my family, says Okindo."
"forced to send thousands of messages from fake social-media profiles, posing as a rich American investor to swindle US real estate agents into cryptocurrency scams. When he failed to reach daily targets, he was beaten, locked inside a freezing-cold room and deprived of food for up to two days. He prayed he would avoid the electric shocks and sexual torture others endured at the hands of a Chinese criminal gang that ran the centre."
Duncan Okindo traveled from Nairobi to Bangkok after selling cattle, borrowing money and paying a recruitment agency 200,000 Kenyan shillings. He and six other Kenyans were taken from the airport, had passports collected, and were driven across a river into Myanmar. He was held inside a walled compound guarded by rebel militia and forced to work in a scam centre. He sent thousands of messages from fake social-media profiles posing as a wealthy American to swindle US real estate agents into cryptocurrency scams. Failure to meet targets led to beatings, confinement in freezing rooms, food deprivation, electric shocks and sexual torture. KK Park in Myawaddy is a rapidly expanding scam centre trafficking East African labour.
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