Chinese nationals are also prime targets, prompting Beijing to coordinate with Myanmar's government in recent years to crack down on scam compounds. These operations involve hundreds of thousands ...
An operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked compounds in ...
The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal ...
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Tai Chang’s ...
More than 220,000 people have been trafficked to Southeast Asia and forced to scam people around the world. Funding cuts to ...
People around the world have lost billions of dollars to scams. But the scammers are often victims, too. We’re taking you inside their world.
Authorities are calling on Elon Musk's Starlink, which provides internet to remote locations, to help fight criminally run ...
Myanmar authorities have detained 273 foreigners at scam-operating compounds around Myawaddy, state media reported on Tuesday, as a senior Chinese official visited frontier towns on both sides of ...