Lured into an online scam network, an African man spent almost a year in Cambodia trying to go home

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The 33-year-old man, lured to Cambodia with the offer of a receptionist job, endured daily beatings for a month, locked in a dark room somewhere in the Southeast Asian country. He didn’t know where he was, but he knew the price of his freedom: $6,000. He had arrived from Ghana […] The post Lured into an online scam network, an African man spent almost a year in Cambodia trying to go home appeared first on Khaosod English.

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