"They handcuffed me to a chair and made me stand for two days. Then they beat us and put us in the car."

Winta, 16 and now a survivor, was offered a fictitious job on a cruise ship and trafficked out of East Africa. Her story of being shuttled between compounds during Cambodia's police crackdown is more than one victim's ordeal - it offers a window into scam trafficking, one of the most complex, fastest-growing and least-attended forms of modern slavery.

Scam trafficking, also called trafficking for forced criminality or pig butchering trafficking, is a form of human trafficking wherein criminals use social media tools to frequently offer jobs to people, move them across borders, hold them in scam compounds, and force them to carry out online fraud against people across the world under duress. This includes romance frauds, crypto schemes and others. This way, it sits at the intersection of two heinous offenses: the trafficking of workers and the cyber frauds they are forced to commit. This writer, therefore,........

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