Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams
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#2I thought they were talking about Las Vegas until I read the article. I wonder if that was the intention when they titled the article.
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#3I thought they were talking about Las Vegas until I read the article. I wonder if that was the intention when they titled the article.
Yep. I fell for clickbait, again.
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#4I thought they were talking about Las Vegas until I read the article. I wonder if that was the intention when they titled the article.
I think you might be imposing an America-centric view on the BBC. I doubt that was the intention.
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#5Aren't these spots popular for running pig butchering scams? I don't know why BBC article didn't explicitly say this.
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#6Aren't these spots popular for running pig butchering scams? I don't know why BBC article didn't explicitly say this.
TIL something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam (I knew about the concept, just hadn't encountered the name.)
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#7I thought they were talking about Las Vegas until I read the article. I wonder if that was the intention when they titled the article.
I think you might be imposing an America-centric view on the BBC. I doubt that was the intention.
That’s fair, which is why I questioned whether that was the case rather than outright making the claim. You’re probably right.
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#8Aren't these spots popular for running pig butchering scams? I don't know why BBC article didn't explicitly say this.
Well, they do say it, however they use a lot more words to do it:
> We were able to speak to a young woman who had been working in one of the scam centres a couple of weeks before our visit. She had not enjoyed it and been allowed to leave.
Her job, she said, was as part of the modelling team, made up mostly of attractive young women, who contact potential victims and try to build an intimate online relationship with them.
"The target is the elderly," she said. "You start a conversation like 'oh you look just like one of my friends'. Once you make friends you encourage them by sending pictures of yourself, sometimes wearing your night clothes."
Then, she explains, the conversation moves to get-rich-quick schemes, such as crypto investments, with the women claiming that's how they made a lot of money.
"When they feel close to you, you pass them on to the chatting section," she says. "The chatting people will continue messaging with the client, persuading them to buy shares in the crypto company."
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#9I thought they were talking about Las Vegas until I read the article. I wonder if that was the intention when they titled the article.
Las Vegas is not the only city with casinos.
Re: Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams
#10I thought they were talking about Las Vegas until I read the article. I wonder if that was the intention when they titled the article.
I think you might be imposing an America-centric view on the BBC. I doubt that was the intention.
It does describe Las Vegas perfectly, and I sincerely doubt your first thought after reading that headline was "its a British publication, so of course they mean that city in Myanmar."