‘I broke fully’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds | World growth

Within hours of touchdown in Bangkok from Nairobi final December to start out a job as a customer support agent, Duncan Okindo knew one thing was fallacious. The 26-year-old had bought his cattle, borrowed cash from associates and used his financial savings to pay a recruitment company 200,000 Kenyan shillings (£1,150).