What's Grandma supposed to do with all those Google Play gift cards now?
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Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
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#12As early as a few years ago, these people were engaged in fraudulent activities in Southeast Asia. Most of them were Chinese, but the Chinese government was too soft and did not take effective measures against the fraud. As a result, for a long time, these people did not receive the approval of the dispute until a Korean appeared.
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#13What's Grandma supposed to do with all those Google Play gift cards now?
idk maybe google is somewhat responsible here?
either their fraud-detection isn't working, or they're turning blind-eye here for profit?
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#14As early as a few years ago, these people were engaged in fraudulent activities in Southeast Asia. Most of them were Chinese, but the Chinese government was too soft and did not take effective measures against the fraud. As a result, for a long time, these people did not receive the approval of the dispute until a Korean appeared.
Source please on the Chinese and Korean claims.
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#15What's Grandma supposed to do with all those Google Play gift cards now?
idk maybe google is somewhat responsible here? either their fraud-detection isn't working, or they're turning blind-eye here for profit?
It's not actually the scammers that are redeeming the gift cards - instead they are in turn reselling the codes on marketplaces (to legitimate customers) for a small loss as a way of laundering them.
From Google's perspective - someone bought a gift card in the US, and redeemed it somewhere else in the US, aka the expected behavior of legitimate gift card usage.
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#16Seems like we're hearing a lot about this lately, it must have gotten real bad if there's suddenly all this movement to crack down on it.
Article is from the 20th so you're probably hearing about the same specific action
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#17"It [starlink] does not have licensed operations in Myanmar, but at least hundreds of terminals have been smuggled into the Southeast Asian nation."
So how do starlinks work in Myanmar if it's not licensed?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
idk maybe google is somewhat responsible here? either their fraud-detection isn't working, or they're turning blind-eye here for profit?
It's not actually the scammers that are redeeming the gift cards - instead they are in turn reselling the codes on marketplaces (to legitimate customers) for a small loss as a way of laundering them. From Google's perspective - someone bought a gift card in the US, and redeemed it somewhere else in the US, aka the expected behavior of legitimate gift card usage.
Google has enough metadata to graph and deduce which are scams.
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#19Seems like we're hearing a lot about this lately, it must have gotten real bad if there's suddenly all this movement to crack down on it.
Article is from the 20th so you're probably hearing about the same specific action
There were related articles on the kidnapping / hostage like experience of some expats a few months back iirc
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#20As early as a few years ago, these people were engaged in fraudulent activities in Southeast Asia. Most of them were Chinese, but the Chinese government was too soft and did not take effective measures against the fraud. As a result, for a long time, these people did not receive the approval of the dispute until a Korean appeared.
Source please on the Chinese and Korean claims.
In 2021, the Chinese government went so far as to require all citizens in northern Myanmar to return to their hometowns in a attempt to combat the scams. It can hardly be called soft. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3141474/beij...