Kindhearted locals helped a Vietnamese man after he escaped from a scam call centre gang in Cambodia and hid in a forest in the Isaan province of Surin in Thailand.
Locals encountered the 18 year old Vietnamese man, Ngo Dong Hao, in the forest yesterday morning and took the teenager to Surin Provincial Immigration Bureau. He did not have a passport or any other documents with him.
During questioning at the immigration office, the Vietnamese man claimed that he lived in the Tra Vinh province in Vietnam and illegally travelled to Cambodia to work as a website administrator. However, when he got there he was forced to work in a scam call centre. He asked to leave but his crooked criminal scam gang leader said he could return home if he could pay back the 100,000 baht that the gang…
