Myanmar Military Shuts Down a Major Cybercrime Center and Detains Over 2,000 People (apnews.com)
(Saturday October 25, 2025 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the crime-and-punishment dept.)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/25/1258252/myanmar-military-shuts-down-a-major-cybercrime-center-and-detains-over-2000-people
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/scam-centers-cybercrime-myanmar-a2c9fda85187121e51bd0efdf29c81da
An anonymous reader shares [1]this report from the Associated Press :
> Myanmar's military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported Monday... The centers are infamous for recruiting workers from other countries under false pretenses, promising them legitimate jobs and then holding them captive and forcing them to carry out criminal activities.
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> [2]Scam operations were in the international spotlight last week when the United States and Britain enacted sanctions against organizers of a [3]major Cambodian cyberscam gang , and its alleged ringleader was indicted by a federal court in New York. According to a report in Monday's Myanma Alinn newspaper, the army raided KK Park, a well-documented cybercrime center, as part of operations starting in early September to suppress online fraud, illegal gambling, and cross-border cybercrime.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/scam-centers-cybercrime-myanmar-a2c9fda85187121e51bd0efdf29c81da
[2] https://apnews.com/article/asian-scam-operations-cybercime-fraud-united-nations-494b1832f330d6a9690b083411809f93
[3] https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-crypto-bitcoin-cambodia-pig-butchering-dfd6833904cf539d680e381ad8d0eb6c
> Myanmar's military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported Monday... The centers are infamous for recruiting workers from other countries under false pretenses, promising them legitimate jobs and then holding them captive and forcing them to carry out criminal activities.
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> [2]Scam operations were in the international spotlight last week when the United States and Britain enacted sanctions against organizers of a [3]major Cambodian cyberscam gang , and its alleged ringleader was indicted by a federal court in New York. According to a report in Monday's Myanma Alinn newspaper, the army raided KK Park, a well-documented cybercrime center, as part of operations starting in early September to suppress online fraud, illegal gambling, and cross-border cybercrime.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/scam-centers-cybercrime-myanmar-a2c9fda85187121e51bd0efdf29c81da
[2] https://apnews.com/article/asian-scam-operations-cybercime-fraud-united-nations-494b1832f330d6a9690b083411809f93
[3] https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-crypto-bitcoin-cambodia-pig-butchering-dfd6833904cf539d680e381ad8d0eb6c
Dupe? (Score:2)
by schwit1 ( 797399 )
[1]https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/0311231/spacex-disables-2500-starlink-terminals-allegedly-used-by-asian-scam-centers
Next time operate in America, (Score:3)
by fredrated ( 639554 )
Trump will pardon you.
Time for California to follow suit (Score:1)
Time for California to follow suit and raid Google.