A booming $500 billion industry is thriving in the shadows. Online scams have become as pervasive and lucrative as the global drugs trade. But fraudsters first honed their tactics in China on ...

He said many of the people there were feverish and coughing. Like all former enslaved scammers who talked to The Associated Press, he spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern for his safety.

Which? investigators found that Booking.com operates an 'easily hacked messaging system', that it has 'failed to remove scam listings' and that a 'lack of identity checks on property owners is ...

People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers ...

He says that eventually, he was bundled into a canoe and taken across the Moei River into Myanmar, where he was dropped off at a scam compound. Today, more than more than 220,000 people from ...

Of "Het is bij de beesten af." Ondanks zijn bijna dertig jaar ervaring als lid van de 'Pandbrigade' van de gemeente Den Haag staat Anjo Hoogendoorn soms nog steeds versteld van wat hij tegenkomt.

Thousands of people have been freed from cyber scam centres along the Thailand-Myanmar border this year as countries work together to crack down on the criminal networks. China and Indonesia ...

Hi, %{firstName}% Games Car rental Carisa Kelly was filled with rage and frustration last summer after criminals stole $300,000 from her 73-year-old mother in an elaborate computer help desk scam. “My ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In former scam compounds across southeastern Myanmar thousands of freed workers are stuck in limbo. Rescued ...