FBI and Royal Thai Police DSI agents surveilling suspected scam centers on the Myanmar (Burma) border Federal Bureau of Investigation/wikimedia commons Criminal syndicates running scam compounds along ...

Large language models (LLMs) are being deployed widely by organized crime groups to help scammers generate ...

Cambodia, notorious for being a major center for international online scams, claimed Friday it no longer hosts any of the ...

FIRST of two parts THE promise usually begins with a simple online message. A high-paying call center job in Thailand. A customer service position in Malaysia. A crypto company in Dubai offering ...

BANGKOK: Victims of transnational online scams in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost up to $114.1 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of cryptocurrency payments to suspected human trafficking groups surged 85% in 2025 as digital assets play a growing ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — All over this Southeast Asian city are vestiges of the multibillion-dollar online scam industry, which thrived here for more than half a decade until a recent government ...

The scam industry in Myanmar is morphing and heading into the jungle rather than disappearing since a crackdown began.

A Ghanaian national had pleaded guilty to scamming countless victims as part of a global fraud ring that engaged in romance fraud and business email compromise (BEC). The Justice Department announced ...

But human trafficking into scam centres is no longer confined to one region. By late 2025, victims identified came from nearly 80 nationalities, and while Southeast Asia remains a major hub, the model ...

“The Philippines has shown that it is taking this threat seriously,” said Amielle del Rosario of UNODC Philippines. “Online scam centers move across borders, adapt quickly, and are often linked to ...