A story that defies imagination - young South Africans lured by influencers with promises of well-paying jobs overseas.
But what these young job seekers don't realise is that they are in fact being trafficked to Cambodia to work in heavily guarded scam centre compounds targeting their own countrymen.
Disturbingly, it's reported that up to half of Cambodia's GDP is gleaned from these syndicates who operate with impunity.
Once there, their passports are taken away and if they resist they face harsh punishment and human rights abuses.
In exclusive interviews, two young South Africans relay in graphic detail how they were forced to pose as SARS officials and even the FBI to fleece unsuspecting victims using aliases and scripts.