A fraud factory or fraud park is a collection of large fraud organizations usually involved in human trafficking operations, commonly 4️⃣ found in Southeast Asia (including Cambodia, Myanmar, or Laos) and usually operated by a criminal gang. Fraud factory operators lure 4️⃣ foreign nationals to scam hubs, where they are forced into modern slavery, to scam internet users around the world into 4️⃣ fraudulently buying cryptocurrencies or withdrawing cash, via social media and online dating apps.[1] Trafficking victims' passports are confiscated, and they 4️⃣ are threatened with organ harvesting and forced prostitution if they do not scam sufficiently successfully.

Nomenclature [ edit ]

The term fraud 4️⃣ factory first appeared in a Sydney Morning Herald article about the Southeast Asian scams and human trafficking industry[2] and was 4️⃣ coined by Jan Santiago of Global Anti-Scam Organization (GASO), a victims advocacy group, in describing scamming operations in the region.[3][4]

The 4️⃣ term was used by Kenya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the activity of trafficking victims to Asia where they use 4️⃣ digital media to meet westerners and sell them cryptocurrencies.[5] In Chinese, the term "fraud industrial park" (Chinese: 詐騙園區; pinyin: zhàpiàn 4️⃣ yuánqū; lit. 'fraud park zone') has emerged in reference to these operations.

Organization and ownership [ edit ]