On World Day Against Trafficking, UN sounds alarm on scam centre surge


Human trafficking for forced criminal activity is growing at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in online scamming centres across South-East Asia, the United Nations said.

Too often, instead of getting help, victims are arrested for crimes they were forced to commit, the head of the UN’s migration agency said on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on Wednesday.

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