Well-paying digital marketing job and a monthly salary of Sh100,000 to boot was all it took to lure the group.

A shelter in Cambodia, the only one of its kind, is overwhelmed as workers flee scam compounds. The Caritas shelter, previously funded by the U.S., is struggling with limited resources.

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many ...