Seoul
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Dex didn’t see himself as a scammer.
For the first two months at his new job in Cambodia, he followed orders. Each day, he sat before his screen, firing off scripted messages, moving from one far-away stranger to the next. Seated around him, row after row, were fellow South Koreans doing the same.
With his phone and passport confiscated and guards patrolling the fenced compound, escape seemed impossible. And besides, he needed the money.
When he had first headed to Cambodia, he thought it was “just a shady messaging job for a stock investment group. I didn’t realize it was an actual fraud,” Dex told CNN.
“When I…