The Billion-Dollar Scam Industry No One Can Stop

Lured by fake job ads, thousands of people from over 60 countries have been trafficked across Myanmar's border and forced to run sophisticated scam operations at gunpoint. Their passports confiscated, their only escape is to defraud strangers out of their life savings. Chinese crime gangs have built a $40 billion industry in the lawless border regions of a country torn apart by civil war, and the money flows straight back to the militias keeping it all alive. Produced by Stephanie Bosset #humanrights #myanmar #cybercrime #trafficking #investigativejournalism Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to the Times Originals YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thetimes?lang=en Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes