{"id":76486,"date":"2026-02-24T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/feb\/24\/destitute-survivors-of-south-east-asias-cyberscam-farms-an-international-crisis"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:40:31","slug":"destitute-survivors-of-south-east-asias-cyberscam-farms-an-international-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76486","title":{"rendered":"Destitute survivors of south-east Asia\u2019s cyberscam farms an \u2018international crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not enough support for freed victims, say aid agencies, with growing numbers  sleeping on the streets, unable to travel home without passports or money<\/p>\n<p>Charities and aid workers have called for urgent international government support for victims of south-east Asia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/02\/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia\">deadly scam compounds<\/a>, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2026\/01\/cambodia-growing-humanitarian-crisis-as-escaped-scamming-compound-survivors-tell-of-murder-rape-and-torture\/\">damning report<\/a> by Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of survivors of cyberscam \u201cfarms\u201d left destitute and abandoned on the city streets of Cambodia and Myanmar is an \u201cinternational crisis\u201d, according to the research published in January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/feb\/24\/destitute-survivors-of-south-east-asias-cyberscam-farms-an-international-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not enough support for freed victims, say aid agencies, with growing numbers  sleeping on the streets, unable to travel home without passports or moneyCharities and aid workers have called for urgent international government support for victims of sout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,987,59,725,351,82,1668,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-cybercrime","category-global-development","category-human-trafficking","category-internet","category-myanmar","category-organised-crime","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76487,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486\/revisions\/76487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}