「カンボジアで働いている」特殊詐欺に？不明息子捜す母　「売られた」脱出男性が激白【もっと知りたい！】【グッド！モーニング】(2026年9月28日)

It has become clear that several Japanese citizens have been abducted overseas without being informed that they were being taken to a special fraud base, and have gone missing. We interviewed a mother who continues to search for her college-aged son, who disappeared nine months ago after saying he was going on a trip. ■Son: "A 2-night, 3-day trip to South Korea," but hasn't returned for 9 months Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site, is located in Siem Reap, a city in northwestern Cambodia, and attracts many tourists from around the world. In the capital, Phnom Penh, the golden palace buildings gleam. Skyscrapers rise near the Mekong River. While Cambodia is experiencing remarkable urban development, a serious problem lies beneath the surface. Special fraud groups are being busted one after another within Cambodia. On the 15th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced the re-arrest of a man on suspicion of kidnapping a woman in her 20s to send her to Cambodia. The man's motive was to force her to work for a special fraud group. It is believed that these fraud groups still exist. It is thought that some Japanese citizens are being forced to work there and are unable to return home. Mother of Missing University Student (50s) "I just want him to be safe. I don't want any other family to go through the same thing." A woman in her 50s living in Fukuoka Prefecture. Her university student son left a message saying he was going on a 2-night, 3-day trip to South Korea with friends, and hasn't returned for nine months. "At one point, I noticed his location information was in Cambodia, which was different from the destination he initially told me, so I became very worried. When I consulted the police, they explained that he might be involved in some kind of crime, such as a special type of fraud." He didn't reply to the messages his mother sent, and she had lost contact with him. Spending anxious days, the mother filed a missing person report with the police and continued to wait for a response. Then, last month, she suddenly received a video call from her son. "He seemed to be having a good time, like he was eating at a Japanese restaurant." "He explained that he was working for a company in Cambodia, but when she asked for more details about his whereabouts, he changed the subject and pressured her to withdraw the missing person report." "They kept demanding that I send them a certificate canceling the missing person report because it was causing problems at the company. My suspicions and anxieties only increased." Although I was able to confirm he was alive, I lost contact with him again. What is happening to my son? ■ "A machine to restrain hands and feet" The program interviewed a man who escaped from a Cambodian scam base and returned to Japan a few months ago. Mr. Tanaka (pseudonym) (30s) "It's like this. There are rivers like this. Cambodia, and Siem Reap with Angkor Wat, also have big rivers, reservoirs, and lakes. But Japan is cooler compared to Cambodia." Mr. Tanaka said it was his dream to work overseas. He was working at a restaurant in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and was enjoying a fulfilling life. Then, suddenly, he was kidnapped by a scam group. "It felt like I was betrayed by someone I thought was a friend, to the mafia." When he arrived at work, a man known to be a mafia member was waiting for him, and he was forced into a car. He was taken to an apartment building along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh. Here, his life of being constantly monitored and forced to participate in special fraud schemes began. "The building itself was probably about 13 stories tall. The upper floors were where we lived. The mafia lived on the lower floors. There were three rooms surrounding the largest room, which was like a living room. I was given one of those rooms. I really could only stay on that floor, but I was constantly under surveillance." The task Tanaka was instructed to do was to revise the manual used when making fraudulent phone calls. "Actually, this is the script. I was assigned the role of making the first phone call to the first client (victim). This is the script. I was given this paper and told to correct it first to make sure it was grammatically correct in Japanese." "So, I thought it would be strange to just answer and say 'Hello,' so I changed this to 'Hello,' and so on. It was like a translated document, and there were parts that didn't make sense in Japanese." Ms. Tanaka said she was made to practice the completed script over and over until she could memorize it. However, she said that she never had any trouble with food during her time in the apartment, and in fact, the mafia members approached her in a friendly manner. "They would say, 'Let's get rich together,' and 'You can become rich if you do this job.'" There was a reason behind that. "The amount of money they could obtain through fraud from Japan seemed enormous, and I was often consulte...