A Potential Nexus Between Forced Scamming and the Financially-Motivated Sextortion of Children
Summary:
A first-of-its-kind study by International Justice Mission (IJM), one of the world’s largest anti-slavery organisations, has uncovered a disturbing likely connection between financial sextortion of children – in which sexual images of a child are obtained and used to coerce the child into sending money – and Southeast Asia’s notorious scam compounds, where trafficked individuals are forced to carry out online fraud. Funded by Safe Online, the study released on Tuesday identified nearly 500 global reports of child sextortion likely linked to Southeast Asian scam compounds, suggesting that human trafficking victims at the compounds may be coerced into running financial sextortion scams which have impacted children.
