Thailand cuts power and internet to areas of Myanmar to disrupt scam gangs

The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance baiting scams.

The operators of the compounds earn billions of dollars each year from computer victims worldwide, with many of those in the compound misled or coerced to work for the scammers, trapped in virtual slavery.

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