緬甸詐騙中心在網上欺騙數百萬美國人

緬甸詐騙中心迫使人口販運受害者在網上欺騙數百萬美國人

作者：克裏斯·塞繆爾 2023 年 12 月 28 日

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實施詐騙的人本身往往也是受害者，被欺騙並被迫為犯罪團夥工作。

據報道，總部位於緬甸的犯罪團夥正在網上詐騙數以萬計的美國人數百萬美元。

據美國有線電視新聞網 (CNN) 報道，在泰國邊境附近的大院裏活動的人口販運受害者被迫以精心設計的騙局為目標，說服受害者交出巨額資金。

這種欺詐手段被稱為“殺豬”，詐騙者經常在網上冒充年輕女性，誘騙受害者交出越來越多的錢。

然後，詐騙者在數周內與目標建立關係，並向他們介紹加密貨幣，並鼓勵他們將資金投資於真實交易應用程序的虛假克隆。

受害者會因為看到巨大但虛構的回報而繼續投資，就像豬被逐漸養肥以待宰殺一樣。

金三角泰國老撾和緬甸的 3 個邊界湄公河上可愛的金佛，河上有船洛阿斯特殊生態，東南亞國家緬甸、老撾、泰國邊境地區長期以來一直是犯罪組織的沃土。 

不久之後，騙子就帶著錢消失了。

聯邦調查局特工詹姆斯·巴納克爾 (James Barnacle) 告訴媒體：“這是欺詐服務的專業化”，並警告說，越來越多的美國人和世界各地的人正在陷入這一騙局。

據執法機構稱，2020 年與這些詐騙相關的損失達 9.07 億美元，到 2023 年 11 月該年度損失將增至 29 億美元。

聯合國和聯邦調查局調查人員表示，在短短三年內，跨國犯罪集團利用科技發展和緬甸內戰創造了一個價值數十億美元的產業，欺騙世界各地的人們交出畢生積蓄。

據該媒體報道，中國犯罪集團利用了一支由現代奴隸組成的大軍，他們被聯合國稱為亞洲近代曆史上最大的人口販運事件之一所困。

聯合國估計，緬甸各地可能有多達 12 萬人被關押在營地中，另有 10 萬人被關押在柬埔寨和其他地方，他們的生活條件相當於現代奴隸製。

美國有線電視新聞網 (CNN) 采訪了 CY，他是金融詐騙案的眾多美國受害者之一，損失超過 100 萬美元。

這位 54 歲的金融工作人員在網上遇到了一位名叫“Jessica”的騙子，在他們通信幾周後，這位騙子向他介紹了加密貨幣。

傑西卡告訴他，在她香港叔叔的內幕消息的幫助下，她通過使用加密貨幣交易黃金積累了數百萬美元。

然後他被指示安裝一個虛假的交易應用程序，並被教導如何“投資”。 他一開始投入了幾千美元，並獲得了驚人的回報。

黑客在嚐試侵入受害者係統時戴上引擎蓋與筆記本電腦一起工作

數以萬計的美國人成為這些精心設計的騙局的受害者。

傑西卡鼓勵賽伊投入越來越多的資金，並承諾這將有助於資助他生病的父親的護理。 在遇到這個騙子的一個月內，他變賣了所有家庭資產，並借了貸款進一步投資。

CY 的父親於 11 月中旬去世，他在一起度過了最後一個晚上，每隔幾個小時給傑西卡發送一條最新消息。

東南亞國家緬甸、老撾、泰國邊境地區長期以來一直是犯罪組織的沃土。 這三個國家之間的地區被稱為“金三角”，幾十年來一直是世界上毒品最多產的地區之一。

2021年和2022年，柬埔寨出現了一係列由中國犯罪集團經營的生豬屠宰詐騙中心，直到政府最終開始取締它們。

但自2021年軍事政變以來仍處於血腥內戰之中的緬甸已被證明是進行詐騙活動的一個利潤豐厚的基地。

聯合國毒品和犯罪問題辦公室東南亞區域代表傑裏米·道格拉斯表示，泰國政府發起了一項運動，以提高泰國公眾的認識，但每周仍有數百人被販運到亞洲從事詐騙工作。 。

泰國司法部長 Tawee Sodsong 告訴媒體，他計劃成立一個特別工作組，研究如何防止詐騙中心在泰國電信服務上運營。

他還希望追究那些被指控協助人口販運團夥或阻礙瓦解這些團夥的腐敗公務員的責任。

中國當局此前表示，緬甸當局於 9 月與中國同行聯合打擊電信詐騙，截至 11 月已向北京移交 31,000 名嫌疑人。

Myanmar scam centers forcing trafficking victims to dupe Americans out of millions online

"Pig butchering", scams see victims tricked into parting with more and more money by scammers often impersonating young women online.

By CHRIS SAMUEL Dec 28, 2023 

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Those carrying out the scams are often victims themselves, tricked and forced to work for criminal gangs.

Criminal gangs based in Mynamar are reportedly scamming tens of thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars online.

Human trafficking victims operating out of compounds near the Thai border are forced to target people online with elaborate scams that convince victims to part with huge sums of money, CNN reports.

The fraudulent ploy is known as a “pig butchering”, a scam which sees victims tricked into parting with more and more money by scam artists often impersonating young women online.

Scammers then build a relationship with their targets over weeks and introduce them to cryptocurrency and encourage them to invest their money on a fake clone of a real trading app.

Victims are motivated to keep investing by being shown huge - but invented - returns, like pigs being gradually fattened for the slaughter.

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The border regions of Southeast Asian countries Myanmar, Laos, Thailand have for a long time been a fertile market for criminal organizations. (Image: Getty)
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After a while, the scammer vanishes along with the money.

FBI special agent James Barnacle told the outlet: “This is the professionalization of fraud services,” and warned that an increasing number of Americans, and people all around the globe, are falling for the scheme.

According to the law enforcement agency, in 2020 reported losses connected to these scams amounted to $907million, rising to $2.9 billion for the year by November 2023.

UN and FBI investigators say in three short years, transnational crime groups have exploited developments in tech and the civil war in Myanmar to create a billion-dollar industry duping people across the world into handing over their life savings.

Chinese crime syndicates exploit an army of modern-day slaves, the outlet reports, trapped by what the UN has called one of the biggest human trafficking events in Asia in recent history.

The UN estimates that as many as 120,000 people could be held in compounds across Myanmar, and a further 100,000 people held in Cambodia and in other locations, living in conditions amounting to modern slavery.

CNN spoke to CY, one of the many American victims of the financial fraud, who lost over a million dollars.

The 54-year-old, who works in finance, met a scammer going by the name of “Jessica” online, who introduced him to cryptocurrency a few weeks into their correspondence.

Jessica told him she’d amassed millions by trading gold using cryptocurrency aided by inside knowledge from her uncle in Hong Kong.

He was then instructed to install a fake trading app and was taught how to “invest”. He began by putting in a few thousand dollars, and was shown startling returns.

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Tens of thousands of Americans have fallen victim to these elaborate scams. 

Jessica encouraged CY to plough more and more money in, promising it would help fund care for his ill father. Within a month of meeting the confidence trickster, he had liquidated all of his family’s assets as well as taking out loans to invest further.

CY’s dad died in mid-November and he spent their last evening together messaging Jessica updates every few hours.

The border regions of Southeast Asian countries Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand have for a long time been a fertile market for criminal organizations. The area between the three nations, known as the “Golden Triangle”, has for decades been one of the world’s most prolific drug-producing regions.

In 2021 and 2022, a slew of pig butchering scam hubs run by Chinese crime groups cropped up in Cambodia until the government eventually started to clamp down on them.

But Myanmar, which is still in the midst of a bloody civil war since the 2021 military coup, has proven to be a hugely profitable base for carrying out scam operations.

The Thai government launched a campaign to increase awareness among the Thai public, but hundreds of people are still being trafficked through Asia every week to work as scammers, according to Jeremy Douglas, Regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Southeast Asia.

Thai Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong told the outlet he is planning to establish a task force to look into what can be done to prevent scam centres from operating on Thai telecommunications services.

He also wants to hold to account corrupt civil servants accused of aiding human trafficking rings, or of standing in the way of efforts to dismantle them.

Myanmar authorities launched a clampdown on telecom fraud with counterparts in China in September, handing over 31,000 suspects to Beijing as of November, Chinese authorities previously said.