Myanmar shut down a major online scam center in mid-October as part of operations that began in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling
Associated Press :
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...
Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including by using Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop
Here's how it works Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : Google Deploys On-Device AI to Thwart Scams on Chrome and Android India Today : Google adds Gemini Nano AI to Chrome to fight against online scams ...
A look at China's heavy-handed and sometimes intrusive approach to crack down on telecom and online scams, including intercepting calls and messages
Bloomberg :
Interpol says calling online scams “pig butchering”, a widely used phrase, is unhelpful as gangs “appear to have” created the phrase to describe victims
Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people …
Pig butchering operations that are offshoots of the Southeast Asian activity have emerged in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and West Africa
WIRED reports: — “More than 200,000 people in Southeast Asia have been forced to run online scams …
Research: Southeast Asian scam syndicates, which typically use forced labor to run online scams like pig butchering, are stealing an estimated $64B annually
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New York's AG sues Citibank over allegedly failing to defend customers from online scams, citing poor responses to red flags and failing to reimburse victims
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusing …
How cybercriminals in Turkey teamed up with Russian émigré hackers to steal and sell tens of millions of credit card numbers, passwords, “hot” cookies, and more
Some of them, Turkish police and security researchers said, turned to relatively low-level online scams and fraud to support themselves …
An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”
The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia …