Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
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Hello fediverse friends.

For The Globe and Mail newspaper, I've spent the last four months hearing from survivors of Myanmar's infamous scam compounds. Run by Chinese criminal syndicates with the collaboration of at least one Burmese pro-junta militia, the camps are staffed by trafficking victims, including a growing number of Africans who are beaten, electrocuted and raped if they don't meet scamming targets. They aren't paid for their efforts.

My story is published.

theglobeandmail.com/world/arti

Africans are being confined and beaten in scam camps in Myanmar

Migrants toil for long hours on social-media platforms, targeting people with crypto and romance scams

www.theglobeandmail.com · The Globe and Mail

Zecharias Zelalem @ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
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Since 2021, a coup induced civil war, and the pandemic have created a booming scamming industry based out of Myanmar. Hundreds of scam compounds have since sprouted up, typically along the Burmese-Thai border. They target westerners with cryptocurrency and romance scams. But they are staffed by trafficked people from across Asia and Africa, who travel to Thailand believing they will be hired at well paying tech jobs in Bangkok...before being driven across the border where their ordeal begins.

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