Burma/Myanmar is in a state of civil war, close to China and close to cheap Thai mobile internet access. Chinese started building fraud parks where they capture people and force them to serially scam people on fake bitcoin exchanges (it starts as online romance, turns to bitcoin scam). Mostly Chinese but also increasingly Europeans and Americans
nobody does anything because those fraud parks are tolerated by Burmese junta. They are on the border between Thailand and Burma
see https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/asia/chinese-sca...
google kk park, fraud factory.
Burma/Myanmar is in a state of civil war, close to China and close to cheap Thai mobile internet access. Chinese started building fraud parks where they capture people and force them to serially scam people on fake bitcoin exchanges (it starts as online romance, turns to bitcoin scam). Mostly Chinese but also increasingly Europeans and Americans
nobody does anything because those fraud parks are tolerated by Burmese junta. They are on the border between Thailand and Burma
David Rosenthal has more on the horrific backstory behind “pig-butchering” scams:
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/02/tracing-pig-butchers.html