Fifty-three Indonesians are being held against their will at a cyber scam center in Cambodia, Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, after they were lured to the country by fake job ads online.
The ministry says it has filed a formal request with the Cambodian police to ensure that the Indonesian citizens are freed and returned home.
“The victims were sent to Cambodia by recruiters — who are Indonesian citizens — to work as cyber scammers at a company owned by a Chinese citizen,” Teguh Adhi Primasanto, first secretary of the Indonesian Citizens Protection department at the Indonesian Embassy in Phnom Penh, said yesterday.
