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

The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar ... after working for a year in a scam centre where he was routinely beaten.

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

Last month, a dramatic and highly publicized operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar ... the cyber scam industry has turned into a growing humanitarian crisis. The people released are just a small ...

His captors shaved his head and reportedly started training him to scam Chinese people while working in a call centre. He was rescued and returned to Thailand four days later following a social media ...

FORT WACHIRAPRAKAN - Inside a Thai military ... who were sent from Myanmar to Thailand last week as a multinational crackdown on scam centres along the border between the two countries gathers ...

have been freed from telecom fraud operations in Myanmar in recent days. Lured by lucrative job offers, they had found themselves trapped in scam centres where they were forced to work swindling ...

(Reuters) - Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to 100,000 people working there, the top police general leading ...

The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar, along the ... He is suffering from panic attacks, after working for a year in a scam centre ...

The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar ... after working for a year in a scam centre where he was routinely beaten.