Educated youth from Africa are a significant presence in the cybercrime sweatshops along the Thailand-Myanmar border.

Locals say Chinese mafia keep running cyber fraud centers in parts of Shan State controlled by the junta or the United Wa State Army, who profit handsomely.

By Shoon Naing (Reuters) -Scam centres that operated along the Thai-Myanmar border for years have drawn fresh attention after the high-profile abduction and release of a Chinese actor in Thailand. The ...

Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to ...

Recent crackdowns by Thailand and China on scamming compounds in Myanmar have shown Beijing’s willingness to exert pressure ...

Indonesia will question hundreds of its citizens arriving in the capital on Tuesday after they were rescued from online scam ...

(AP Photo/Thanaphon Wuttison) A sign near military checkpoint warns in Thai, English and Chinese of the danger of being trafficked and forced to work in locked scam compounds across the Myanmar ...

NAY PYI TAW — Myanmar authorities detained 273 foreigners from scam compounds along the border with Thailand on Monday, as a senior Chinese official visited frontier towns on both sides in a ...

Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams The Chinese mafia's downfall in a lawless casino town Mike described ... to have been lured to work in the scam operations ...

China to Fly Back 200 Nationals Rescued From Myanmar Scam Centres, Thai Official Says By Shoon Naing, Panarat Thepgumpanat (Reuters) -China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in scam ...