@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-02-17 07:28 UTC
Since 2021, a coup induced civil war, and the pandemic have created a booming scamming industry based out of Myanmar. Hundreds of scam compounds have since sprouted up, typically along the Burmese-Thai border. They target westerners with cryptocurrency and romance scams. But they are staffed by trafficked people from across Asia and Africa, who travel to Thailand believing they will be hired at well paying tech jobs in Bangkok...before being driven across the border where their ordeal begins.
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@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-02-17 07:32
Chinese scam camp operators in Myanmar have tortured and even murdered victims. But Meseret Mulu, a 27 year old Ethiopian woman, told me that at one point, the criminals brought in fighters from the DKBA (Democratic Karen Benevolent Army), a Burmese militia group allied with the junta...to come in and torture her, by stripping her naked and forcing her to spend hours in searing heat. Warring factions take a cut to allow Chinese mafia gangs to open camps in their territory.
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@MamaLake@beige.party 2026-02-17 08:22
@ZekuZelalem what are your thoughts on meta's involvement in the coup?