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

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

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.

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 ...

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.