A WOMAN was allegedly killed and had her organs sold on the black market after being tricked into a fake modelling job.
Vera Kravtsova, 26, was reportedly trafficked and forced to live in Myanmar where she was “turned into a slave” by wealthy men.
Ms Kravtsova, originally from Belarus, had signed up for a job in Bangkok as a model.
She travelled across to Thailand with dreams of making it big on the nation’s most luxurious runways but her career path soon took a harrowing turn.
Mash news outlet reported: “She flew to Bangkok for a job interview, but instead of working on the runway, she was taken to Myanmar and turned into a slave.
“Her duties included being beautiful, serving her ‘masters’, and scamming rich people.”
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She was forcefully made to go across to neighbouring Myanmar around September 12, where she was used in a notorious “scam centre”, according multiple reports.
Another report online claimed: “Instead of shoots and contracts, she was taken across the border to Myanmar, where she was made a captive of a scam centre.”
Myanmar is infamous for similar schemes where they attract female foreigners with promises of a good career before trapping them in a sinister plot.
Victims have previously said they were forced to give up their passports and had their mobile phones confiscated so they can’t call up loved ones for help.
Chinese gangs and the Burmese militia allegedly run many of these sinister call centre factories in a lawless border zone in Myanmar.
Abducted workers are subject to torture and extortion and can be threatened with organ harvesting or forced prostitution if they fail to make enough money from online victims during the scam calls.
As many as 100,000 slaves may be held in these places at once, it is estimated.
Reports on Kravtsova claim she was told she had to “be beautiful and extort money from wealthy clients,” by her traffickers.
She was pressured into agreeing to the job out of fear for her life but as soon as she stopped making money and ran out of clients she mysteriously disappeared.
Ms Kravtsova’s family was told a few weeks later that she had been found dead.
They also claimed that they received a message telling them if they wanted to bury Kravtsova then it would cost half a million dollars to get back her body.
The family didn’t agree to the cash and some time later received a message saying: “We cremated her.”
Russian online media outlet SHOT reported: “Vera went silent in early October.
“A little later, unknown individuals contacted her family, informing them that she had been sold for her organs and her body had been cremated.”
Ms Kravtsova had a university degree and had only recently moved from the Belarusian capital of Minsk to St. Petersburg in Russia.
Similar concerning tales out of Myanmar have been reported on in recent weeks.
Dashinima Ochirnimayeva, 24, from Siberia, was also recruited as a model and was “slated for sale for her organs”, according to Mash.
She escaped a tragic end when Russian diplomats came and saved her.
Ms Ochirnimayeva had accepted a “modelling job” before being illegally smuggled across the border to Myanmar.
One account said: “Upon arrival in Thailand, the Chita woman was taken to a special camp on the Myanmar border.
“There, people become slaves and serve their ‘masters’.
“They are forced to engage in fraud.
“Young, beautiful women are recruited as ‘models’ to swindle people out of money with their faces and bodies, while the rest are trained in texts and extorting cash.”
The Russian Ambassador to Thailand, Yevgeny Tomikhin, was personally involved in the successful attempt to free Ochirnimayeva.
He said the woman had been “deceived into traveling from Thailand to Myanmar in early September for alleged forced labour in the notorious call centres”.
She reportedly took the job after being offered it on Telegram.
