Forced to deceive: Inside the cyber mafia and online scams | DW Documentary
141K views · Jan 29, 2026 · Education
Comments · 164
@FuruhaJabula · 8 months ago
Absolutely Scary..<br>A Large Part Of This World Has No Moral Compass.. <br>All The Best Folks.. 🙏
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@Simonwacho · 8 months ago
As someone good in English and Chinese, got a job from an Organization in Thailand, but when the person said i would enter Thailand on a tourist visa, i saw red flags and never took them serious, only a year later to realize it was most likely one of these slave scam centers.
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@mr.zacharyabraham2837 · 8 months ago
It has nothing to do with being a man. If you receive a text message from an unrecognized number, you do not respond and then block the number immediately. Smdh
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@geraldmarco · 8 months ago
More documentaries like this, please, so we can be informed of what's going on in our society.
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@calexprenas · 8 months ago
This was a hard watch. What a dark world we live in. It’s hard to understand how people can be so cruel and ruthless to others — how do they sleep at night? What kinds of upbringing did they have?
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@clinswift · 5 months ago
DW have been doing pretty good work with their documentaries. Kudos👏
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@Claudio_De · 8 months ago
The most disgusting thing is that the governments of Burma, Cambodia, etc. don't care.
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@GloryDaze73 · 8 months ago (edited)
@ DW. Please rename this video. More people need to see this, but the title needs to be more catchy. You need to warn people about all these scams. Love-scams are a Huge Issue!
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@KellyTheReiss · 8 months ago
I've talked about this issue in my Psychology of International Conflict class as part of my final. Many of my classmates and the professor of that class were just shocked at a darker side of Southeast Asia that they didn't pay much attention to. I ended up getting a good grade on that final.
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@HumanBeanbag · 8 months ago
Men should just assume that there are no women online.
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@opengrapefruit1534 · 8 months ago
I talked to a scammer but I knew it was a scammer but scammers are really really good at making you feel guilty. I blocked the person it was the only way to get rid of the person
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@AddissiddA · 7 months ago
There are so many documentaries about these scam centers, yet nothing is ever done about them. Governments don’t care about their citizens.
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