[The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)] Trafficking and crime will rise after US foreign aid freeze, experts say.

Abdus Salam was enticed to move to Cambodia by the promise of a $US1,000 ($1,592) monthly salary as a computer operator.

But after the textiles engineer from Bangladesh arrived in the capital Phnom Penh he was driven by a broker to Dara Sakor, a remote area 270 kilometres away, and trafficked into a cyber scam compound.

"I thought it would be the golden ticket to support my family," he recalled.

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