Thailand, Myanmar and scam

Thousands in limbo on Thai-Myanmar border after scam centre crackdown
Thousands of foreigners freed from online scam-operating centres in Myanmar are stuck in limbo on the border with Thailand after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, three sources told Reuters on Monday.
A top Chinese official tours Thai-Myanmar border to highlight crackdown on scam centers
Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appeared to gain momentum on Monday as a top Chinese security official visited both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border.
Families of Malaysian scam centre victims call on Thailand to do more
Pressure to shut the centres operating along the Thai-Myanmar frontier, as well as release scam farm victims being held against their will, has been increasing.
Thai, Cambodian Police Free 215 Foreigners in Scam Centre Raid
Thai and Cambodian police raided a building in a border town and freed 215 foreigners, a senior Thai official said on Sunday, in an expansion of a regional crackdown against cyber scam centres. Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked by criminal gangs and forced to work in scam centres and illegal online operations across Southeast Asia,
215 foreigners including Thais rescued from Cambodian scam centre
Cambodian police have rescued 215 foreigners, 109 of them Thais, from a scam compound in Poipet city following stepped-up collaboration to combat scam gangs between Thailand and Cambodia.The operation followed Friday's urgent meeting between Pol Gen Thatchai Pitaneelaboot,
Las Vegas woman accused of defrauding older men in deadly romance scam
Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one ...
Scam Calls Hit Record in Thailand Before Cyber Fraud Crackdown
Thailand saw the number of scam calls and text messages more than double to a record 168 million in 2024 from a year earlier, ...
Scam alert issued for new ‘QR’ code caper: Pepper Pike Police Blotter
Pepper Pike police picked up a Euclid man, 41, from the Cuyahoga County jail on Feb. 19 for an active warrant on a driving ...
This PayPal scam exploits new address feature to send out phishing scam emails
One thing that actually isn’t fake is PayPal’s email address. As BleepingComputer discovered, PayPal recently introduced a ...
IRS Scam Messages Surge: What To Do if You Get One
According to cybersecurity company Guardio, Americans experienced a 77 percent increase in IRS-related scam messages in ...
Chris Kelly Opinion: Musk’s DOGE scam slashes Steamtown
Elon Musk will never have to face any of the five Steamtown National Historic Site employees he axed, or any of the other ...
BBB warns of scam targeting grieving families
A Tulsa woman struggling to pay for her mother's funeral thought she was getting a financial blessing when a caller claimed ...
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More than $20K lost in caller scam sweeping El Paso County
If you've recently received a call from someone claiming to be a deputy with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office (EPSO) or ...
Gurugram 'scam': Reddit user posts about driver threatening pedestrians in new money-making endeavour
A post about a ‘new scam’ in Gurugram is going viral, in which pedestrians are intentionally hit and threatened by the driver to pay for damages. Read the post.
Norton boosts AI scam protection tools for all users
Depending on the set of purchased features, users can expect the AI to help scan SMS messages, internet websites, calls, ...