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the scammers had the best CRM software and "customer service" training.

If any of the scam farm worker failed they will get physical punishment or even capital punishment...

Is this for sure? I can imagine that even then, 99% of the attempts will fail.

There are token rewards for successes and punishments, sometimes extreme, for low productivity. If a slave is seen as having no worth to the endeavour and cannot be trafficked, they will sometimes be killed as a warning to the others that productivity is expected.

It’s a horrific and brutal scenario that pits victims against victims. In many ways, the targets have less to lose than the victims targeting them.

"...workers at KK Park are subjected to 17-hour workdays and are frequently spied on, tortured, and threatened with murder when attempting to flee the compound.[11][17] Passports and cell phones of workers were confiscated to prevent unmonitored communication with the outside world. The complex includes supermarkets, hospital, restaurants and hotels to form a closed community.[citation needed] Illegal organ harvesting was also reported to take place inside KK Park.[4] KK Park victims could only leave by paying a "contract termination" fee which is calculated by the inflated cost of transportation and how much money the victims earned for the scam companies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KK_Park

Jesus. It had never occurred to me that the front-line people perpetrating these scams could be enslaved themselves.

Enslaved, having family members held hostage, or some other threat of violence. Once you start stealing amounts of money that other people will kill you for then it's likely for that group to use that level of violence against its own members to ensure compliance.

Sure, most attempts will fail. The cyber trafficking victims are punished if they fail to reach their quote.

many of the them are in heavy debt or commited crime and had no other jobs avaible.

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