People rescued from a scam center in Myanmar use their mobile phones at a temporary shelter in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) ASSOCIATED PRESS.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with journalist Jan Camenzind Broomby about the thousands of people who are stuck in limbo after being caught in online scam centers in Myanmar but who can't return home.

Two men who lured people with fake overseas job offers and forced them to engage in cybercrimes in Myanmar, were arrested here on Saturday, police said. Identified as Iqbal and Mohammad Ahmed Khan ...

A student from northwestern China who was tricked into a scam in Myanmar was unexpectedly released after the gang learned he ...

Nearly 300 Indian nationals are escorted through Thailand's Mae Sot airport after being freed from criminal scam centres in neighbouring Myanmar. In recent weeks, around 7,000 workers have been ...

Facing pressure from China, Thailand and Myanmar’s governments launched a massive operation in February in which they released thousands of trafficked people from scam compounds, working with ...

Last month, a dramatic and highly publicized operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked compounds in Myanmar where they were forced ...

And these scam compounds house, we think, between 120 and up to 200,000 scam workers that are working there at the moment. Now, so far, it's been a win-win, at least for those on the higher levels.

Most of the 1,700 people still in Myanmar are being held in army camps or repurposed scam compounds controlled by the Kayin Border Guard Force, an ethnic militia that rules this part of Myanmar.