Shabani Matani

And he said everyone knew what happened there.

That was where they'd bring in people who did not comply, who tried to escape, who tried to contact NGOs and rescuers, who tipped off clients to this being a scam.

And it's been well documented over the years in NGO reports and U.S.

government reports.

Shuaib thought he still had his original return ticket, which was for a month after his arrival on that month-long tourist visa.

But then someone in the compound told him, just forget about that.

If you don't finish your contract, you'll owe the bosses about $4,000.

He felt trapped.

Every day he worried about quotas.

He'd pray to God for clients.

If they didn't get clients, they'd have to work longer hours, or his monthly salary would be deducted.

Bosses, they deducted money for everything.

They called them fines.

I'd heard from people who worked in other compounds that there were fines for being on the phone for too long, for briefly clicking out of the scam chat window during their 12-hour workday.

One rescuer told me that someone she helped was fined because they wanted to sit close to a window.

Schwab was often fined for not getting enough clients.

And there were daily expenses to account for, too.

Schwab is Muslim, and he doesn't eat pork.

But the cafeteria often served pork.

So he went to the company-run supermarket to buy snacks.