SCAM SYNDICATE CRISIS
In fact, thousands of people have been tricked into buying things that are strewn around Thailand’s frontiers like barnacles around the ship’s deck.  ,
They typically come from hard-working, poor youth from countries like India, Pakistan, China, Myanmar, Philippines, and even as far as Ethiopia and Somalia. They frequently arrive in Thailand primary, are taken to a scam center, and their visas are taken there.
They are now the equivalent of drug mules trapped in a billion-dollar illegal market, run by wealthy and powerful people, the majority of whom are well-known but appear to work with violence.
According to the United States Institute of Peace ( USIP ) in a report from May 2024, scam syndicates in our area steal almost US$ 64 billion from victims around the world.  ,  ,
The unfortunate staff occasionally escape or are saved. 549 Indians were repatriated in March after being rescued from con factories close to the Myanmar-Thailand border. In February and March, China even repatriated thousands of its members.  ,
Following Wang Xing’s violence in January, who had been duped into Thailand for a movie shot, was trafficked to Myanmar and caught in a flurry of activity.  ,
After landing in Bangkok, Wang had exchanged a number of texts with his partner in China, but he remained silent until he reached Mae Sot, the Thai border area directly across from Myawaddy, a infamous fraud hub in Myanmar.
His girlfriend, who was alarmed, made public on social media by posting a message to Thai authorities and judicial officials in China. In the end, Thai authorities took Wang Xing off Myawaddy and brought him back to Thailand, in a process whose information are mysterious.  ,