News Analysis
Every day, people in the United States and many other countries are being scammed—by phony customer service operators, romance fraudsters, and perpetrators of more complex cryptocurrency investment scams.
But those being scammed out of retirement savings, or college funds, probably do not realize the person on the other end of the phone is likely another victim, who has already paid with their freedom.
Revelations in recent months about the existence of vast scam centers along Burma’s border with Thailand, run by Chinese organized crime syndicates and human traffickers, have highlighted the sheer scale of international cybercrime.
Amy Miller, regional director of Acts of Mercy International, told The Epoch Times: “This is a new form of human trafficking. It’s human trafficking for forced criminality.”…