Online scam hubs have mushroomed across Southeast Asia, draining unsuspecting victims of billions of dollars annually in elaborate romance and crypto cons. Many workers are trafficked into the ...

By Yangchula Bhutia Xu Peng, SOAS, University of London South-east Asia has become the “ground zero” for the global online ...

According to the ministry, criminal networks had established sophisticated scam hubs that conducted online fraud and recruited workers from across the world. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | ...

The crackdown at Shwe Kokko marks an extension of the junta’s anti-scam campaign, but there are reasons to be skeptical. Myanmar’s military government says that it has raided a second major online ...

A satellite image of KK Park, a suspected hub of online scamming operations sitting on the Thai border to the south of Myawaddy, Karen State, Myanmar. Credit: The Diplomat via Google Maps Myanmar’s ...

Myanmar's military said Sunday it arrested nearly 1,600 foreign nationals in five days in a highly publicised crackdown on a notorious internet scam hub on the Thai border. Sprawling fraud factories ...

Myanmar's military said on Nov. 19 it raided an internet scam hub on the Thai border, arresting nearly 350 people, part of a highly publicized crackdown against the booming black market compounds.

Recent raids on one of Myanmar's most notorious internet scam hubs sparked a recruitment rush as fleeing workers scrambled to enlist at nearby fraud factories, experts and insiders told AFP. Online ...