SAD STORY? | Fourteen South Africans were promised IT specialist jobs in Bangkok, Thailand. But instead of work, they were forcibly taken to Myanmar, a country known for human trafficking.
The jobs they were promised turned out to be running online scams. They are forced to work 14 hours a day with no pay, living in terrible conditions. They are locked up, their phones and passports taken, so they cannot escape. The traffickers are now demanding R250,000 (about US$15,000) per person from their families to secure their release.
Please share this to raise awareness and help protect others from falling into such traps.Multiple groups have been rescued in operations involving NGOs
and international authorities. In one major incident, 23 South Africans were part of a larger group of 7,000 people rescued from a compound raid and safely repatriated home. However, dozens more South Africans are still believed to be trapped in similar situations.
