When she resisted, the supervisor threatened Alice with a stun gun and “said that if she did not comply, he would lock her up ...

Lonely men in Europe and North America are being targeted by professional romance scammers in Southeast Asia. Using fake ...

BANGKOK — Southeast Asia is seeing a rise in online scam centers that are swindling billions of dollars from people, a new report finds. Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia, published in May ...

BANGKOK — Southeast Asia’s online scam hubs are drawing growing attention from governments and law enforcement agencies well beyond the region as the criminal syndicates behind them search ...

Scam centres that operated along the Thai-Myanmar border for years have drawn fresh attention ... China and Myanmar to dismantle the centres in a network of scam compounds across Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia scammers stole up to $37 billion in 2023, according to a United Nations report. Getty Images. Major organized crime groups have increasingly used under-regulated online gambling ...

The report claimed “a conservative estimate” in one unnamed Southeast Asian country for scammers ranged between US$7.5 and US$12.5 billion – “almost half this country’s GDP in 2021”. Several cities in ...

The scams – mostly run out of Southeast Asia - are given that name because they involve “fattening up” victims before taking everything they have.

Toward a scam-free Southeast Asia Tackling the cross-border nature of digital scams requires a comprehensive effort that deploys both national strategies and international coordination.

Human trafficking-fueled fraud is exploding in Southeast Asia with organized crime rings raking in close to $3 trillion in illicit revenue annually, the head of Interpol has said in comments that ...

What Are Southeast Asia's Scam Centres, and Why Are They Being Dismantled? By Shoon Naing (Reuters) -Scam centres that operated along the Thai-Myanmar border for years have drawn fresh attention ...