Such ‘scam compounds’ are staffed with foreigners lured outside their home countries with fake job offers, as Scroll found in ...

Assistant Minister for Public Security Liu Zhongyi has been given the assignment of combating scam operations run by Chinese ...

At a scam compound in Myanmar, Filipina worker Pieta had just ... nationals and first appeared on the other side of the Moei River in 2019, although it is still under construction.

More than 250 people rescued from online scam ... Myanmar and Thailand have made a show of raiding the centers before releasing and repatriating the foreigners inside. Thai officials said the Kyauk ...

Hundreds of Chinese nationals who worked at online fraud centers in eastern Myanmar began to head home on Thursday from an ...

He flew from Shanghai to Bangkok, lured by a casting call ... Myanmar town of Myawaddy, where he was imprisoned with hundreds of others in a heavily guarded compound known as a “scam center.” ...

The group had been working at a scam center in Kyauk Khet Village in Karen State, according to the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), which controls the area.

BANGKOK--Some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar, Thailand’s army announced ...

Last week, Thai authorities initiated power cuts to three Myanmar border cities in a crackdown on online scam centers after Chinese ... trafficked across the Moei River into compounds like ...