Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
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Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#2This is a great interactive article about what it's like to be kidnapped and forced to work in these scam centers on the Myanmar border, lured by promise of jobs people are trapped, passports confiscated, phones stolen, 16-hour workdays spent defrauding victims online, cultivating fake relationships and pressuring them into investment or romance scams:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/asia/my...
Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#3What's Grandma supposed to do with all those Google Play gift cards now?
Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#4I heard that both sides of the ongoing civil war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%...) work with these criminal organizations to secure foreign revenue for weapons purchases - but that it is primarily a junta-driven thing.
And that the people running them come from PRC Chinese organized crime (triads).
Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#5What's Grandma supposed to do with all those Google Play gift cards now?
Do NOT redeem!
Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#6This is a great interactive article about what it's like to be kidnapped and forced to work in these scam centers on the Myanmar border, lured by promise of jobs people are trapped, passports confiscated, phones stolen, 16-hour workdays spent defrauding victims online, cultivating fake relationships and pressuring them into investment or romance scams: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/asia/my...
I got a lot less snarky in my responses to scam text messages when I learned about the forced labor aspect. I just block the sender and go on, versus trying to bait them and waste their time.
For awhile I was asking "Is there someone I can contact for you?", but then I got worried that would get somebody a beating.
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#7Seems 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.
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#8Seems 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.
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Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#9Seems 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.
Maybe some governments are sponsoring these activities near the border of a political rival. Like they did during the golden triangle era...
Re: Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people
#10This is a great interactive article about what it's like to be kidnapped and forced to work in these scam centers on the Myanmar border, lured by promise of jobs people are trapped, passports confiscated, phones stolen, 16-hour workdays spent defrauding victims online, cultivating fake relationships and pressuring them into investment or romance scams: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/asia/my...
I got a lot less snarky in my responses to scam text messages when I learned about the forced labor aspect. I just block the sender and go on, versus trying to bait them and waste their time. For awhile I was asking "Is there someone I can contact for you?", but then I got worried that would get somebody a beating.
“I love you” works well, because even if they are a piece of shit now, they need to hear it. No one is born bad. I’ve actually gotten them to break character with stuff like that sometimes.