A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims
Thailand has become a key transit hub for trafficking victims … Bluesky: Adolfo Arranz / @adolfux : Over 185,000 brush strokes went into creating this visual story in “sequential art” format about gan...
Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Bluesky: @malwarejake , @...
A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024
scroll.in/article/1078... Ayush Tiwari unpacks how the global #cybercrime network works to target Indians. … X: Neha / @nehaverma107 : Crazy report‼️Hope all of our trapped country people can return ...
A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024
Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved - and how Indians became its targets. Bluesky: @scroll.in . X: @singhamritaa , @sheehanj920 , @scroll_in , @scroll_in , @nidh...
Apple apologizes and pulls an ad set in Thailand after backlash from Thai lawmakers and influencers who deemed its portrayal of the country offensive
here's why MacDailyNews : Weak-kneed Apple apologizes for another ad after complaints Al Bawaba : Apple under fire for ‘Terrible’ Thailand ad Threads: J Emory Parker / @jemoryparker : Now that we've d...
Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar
A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture X: @felizysolo , @mikesmithwriter , @silvermanjacob , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , and @jcheng...
How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, and Kids Diana Show, with a total of ~300M subscribers, are building global franchises
R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dangrover , @wsj , and @thevirginiagen1 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Dan Grover / @dangrover : There was a popular Medium article ~3y ago about same phenom...
How live-action YouTube kids channels Vlad and Niki, Like Nastya, and Kids Diana Show, with a total of ~300M subscribers, are building global franchises
Vlad, Niki, Diana and Nastya party on yachts, ride in Ferraris and travel the world. Their massive audience of fellow kids can't get enough. Tweets: @dangrover , @wsj , and @thevirginiagen1 Tweets: D...
Researcher finds data on 106M international visitors to Thailand, including passport numbers and travel records dating back a decade, were exposed on a database
An unsecured database containing international travel records dating back 10 years was left exposed on the web.
A look at the characters behind the speculative shitcoin crypto scene, including promoters who can earn anywhere from $5K-$10K to hype a coin
38, unemployed and ticked off by watching other people get rich — figured, What the hell? and laid $500 on some crazy-sounding thing called ASS Coin. @business https://www.bloomberg.com/... Aly-Khan S...