Lured online, sold for $5,000: How Nigerian youths are trapped in Asia’s cyber-slave camps (1)
When Sabiu demanded to leave the compound, his boss gave him an answer that still haunts him: I had paid $5,000 to buy you. What began as a promised job in Laos had become captivity. His passport was…
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