‘All I did was scam and sleep’


Former scam centre workers boarding a flight from Mae Sot, Thailand, to be repatriated to China. — Lauren DeCicca/The New York Times

THE job advertisement promised a fat salary in a modern metropolis.

Fisher, a 27-year-old Ethiopian who had studied electrical engineering, persuaded his father to sell the family farmland – where generations had grown mangoes, avocados and teff, an ancient grain – to pay for a ticket to Bangkok.

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