Victims of scam centers are rounded up inside a compound at a “fraud factory” on the Thai-Myanmar border. - Photo: Reuters
BANGKOK: Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to 100,000 people working there, the top police general leading Thailand’s operations against the fraud compounds has said.
Thailand is fronting a regional effort to dismantle scam centres along its borders, which are part of a South-east Asian network of illegal facilities that generate billions of dollars every year, often using people trafficked there by criminal gangs, according to the United Nations.
