Just a quick heads up that today's episode talks about human trafficking and is not appropriate

for kids.

Alright, here is the show.

When I got ProPublica Reporter Cesari Podkul on the line from Hong Kong, I asked him

to tell me the story of a man named Phan.

He's a young guy, 22 years old, Chinese who was looking for a job last year and he came

across a job ad that looked really promising.

It was for a food delivery company in Nampen, Cambodia.

The salary was good and the company even offered to fly in there from China.

He applied for the position, he got it and next thing you know, he flew to Cambodia and he

was so excited about this job, he also told his brother who was already there for work

and they two of them, you know, reported for duty and it was only after they got there

that they realized that this wasn't at all what they had thought that it was going to be.

That marketing job with the food delivery company had never existed, something much darker

was happening.

Basically, in that first month, after he started at the job and was doing the training, he

realized that the training wasn't for anything that he thought it was going to be the training

involved basically learning how to the fraud people online.

By that time, Fawn and his brother were deep in debt to their captors for bringing them to

Cambodia.

At one point, they owed $31,000 and there was almost no way to earn it back, which of course

was by design.

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