Social media accounts uncover how fake jobs trap people in cross-border scam compounds

Under the pretext of employment prospects, hundreds of thousands of job seekers are lured by scammers to cross the border into countries such as Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia. Instead of the promised lucrative positions, they are forced to work long hours in heavily guarded scam compounds, facing strict quotas and violence as punishment. Their main task is to fabricate online identities and defraud people, for example by operating "pig-butchering" scams, in which they introduce fraudulent investment schemes after establishing romantic relationships with random targets online.