Underground internet cables linked to scam gangs in Myawaddy found
A RAID on a company located at Mae Sot’s cargo port found underground internet cables feeding signals to scam gangs across the Moei river in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, Amarin TV said today (Mar. 6). Armed with a search warrant issued by Mae Sot provincial court, Pol. Lt. Col. Trin Leelanuch, head of Cyber Crime […]
Read MoreRescued scam workers almost clash with Karen fighters at Myawaddy
A GROUP of 275 foreign scam workers, mostly Ethiopians and other Africans, who were among thousands rescued from call centre complexes in Myawaddy township, just across from Thai border town Mae Sot, early February almost clashed with Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) fighters as they rose up to protest being held at a squalid, […]
Read More‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
By AFP and published by CNA Myawaddy – Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from […]
Read MoreFriendship Bridge packed as price petrol in Myawaddy soars to 135 baht a litre
THE 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge linking Myawaddy township to Thai Mae Sot town was packed this evening (Feb. 13) as residents drove across the border to the Thai side to fill their tanks with what fuel still available there now costing 135 baht a litre, Naewna newspaper said. Since Feb. 5 when the Thai […]
Read MoreTwo senior police officers shunted out amid probe over Myawaddy scam hub links
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Kitrat Phanphet today (Feb. 11) transferred two senior police officers, commander of 5th Immigration Bureau and commander of Tak provincial police, while investigation is undertaken to determine whether they are linked to the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township and human trafficking, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Ekkarat […]
Read MoreMyawaddy scammers conning victims as usual having prepared in advance
DESPITE Thailand having this morning (Feb. 5) cut electricity, Internet and fuel supply to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, just across the border from Mae Sot district, workers at a flourishing scam hub are continuing to con their victims as usual because their criminal bosses have stocked up fuel and installed backup generators in advance, Naewna […]
Read MorePower supply to Myawaddy ordered shut: Phumtham
By Thai Newsroom Reporters POWER SUPPLY FROM a northwestern border district in Thailand to a scam-infested township in Myanmar was being completely shut off today (Feb.4), according to Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai. Phumtham confirmed today he has already ordered the Provincial Electricity of Thailand via the National Security Council to completely terminate […]
Read MoreAnutin urged to cut off power supply to scam centre in Myawaddy
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was pressed today (Jan.23) to cut off Thailand’s power supply for suspected transnational criminals in Myanmar once and for all. People’s MP Rangsiman Rome, who chairs the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs & National Strategies and Reforms, called on Anutin to take […]
Read More32 Indonesian escape from Myawaddy scam hub
AS the bosses of a scam centre at Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, across the border from Thai town Mae Sot, have come under pressure 32 Indonesians managed to flee to Thailand today (Jan. 19), TV Channel 7 said. A joint patrol of the border by Rajamanu Task Force, Mae Sot and Immigration police and local […]
Read MoreChinese model too feared trafficked to Myawaddy scam hub
AFTER the recent release of a Chinese actor who was trafficked from Thailand’s Mae Sot town to a scam centre in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, the father of a Chinese model who disappeared in December has asked Thai police to help find him as it is feared he might have suffered the same fate, PPTVHD36 […]
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