'My life's a nightmare I can't wake up from': SA woman forced to work as scammer in Myanmar

News24 | 'My life's a nightmare I can't wake up from': SA woman forced to work as scammer in Myanmar

A South African woman being held in a compound in Myanmar, near the Thailand border, says her harrowing experience is like a nightmare she cannot wake up from.

Eight Keralites rescued from Myanmar set to reach Kerala

Eight Keralites rescued from cybercrime scam in Myanmar and Thailand to arrive in Thiruvananthapuram, coordinated by local authorities.

India brings home nearly 300 citizens lured by fake job offers, rescued from scam centres

India has brought home nearly 300 of its nationals who were lured to various southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, with fake job offers and made to engage in cybercrime.

Behind online fraud and scamming embassies are often kidnapped young people, imprisoned in camps in Asia. They "must slaughter the pig – thus plunder the accounts of their victims. Anyone who steals no money is tortured and starved.

India brings home nearly 300 citizens rescued from SE Asian scam centres

NEW DELHI - India has brought home nearly 300 of its nationals who were lured to various southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, with fake job offers and made to engage in cybercrime and other fraudulent activities in scam compounds, the government said.

Nearly 300 Indian nationals brought back home following release from scam centres in Myanmar

Around 7,000 workers from at least two dozen countries have been freed, the majority of them Chinese, but many have been languishing in squalid conditions in temporary holding camps on the Myanmar-Thai border