GENEVA (AN) — Criminal networks are trafficking hundreds of thousands of people into heavily guarded compounds and forcing them to conduct online scams, prompting the International Organization for Migration to launch its first regional strategy aimed at what it describes as one of the fastest-growing forms of human trafficking.
Ahead of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, IOM warned on Tuesday that victims are being recruited through fraudulent job advertisements, transported across borders and coerced through violence, threats and debt bondage into carrying out investment, cryptocurrency and romance scams targeting people around the world.
