Posted on 12/07/2025 5:11:52 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
The war that rages on in Burma today is fought on a multitude of fronts. In the mountainous regions of Burma, armed resistance groups are struggling to defend their communities against the bloody regime of the State Security and Peace Commission, SSPC (formerly called the State Administration Council), a military dictatorship with a track record of profiting from illicit activities. Within this convoluted conflict, a quickly expanding criminal empire has taken root. Cyber scam centers, run by established Chinese crime rings and manned by victims of human trafficking, are popping up all along the Burma-Thai border. According to a recent report by the U.S. State Department, American citizens lost $10 billion to these cyber scamming operations in 2024, a 66% increase from the year before. The capabilities of this established criminal enterprise are growing. These centers have an undeniable international impact, through the thousands of foreigners they traffic and the mass of funds they siphon from foreign countries.
Many of the people trafficked into the centers find themselves in a situation of modern-day slavery, subjected to torture and even killed by these well-embedded rings of highly effective criminals. The scam centers, protected by pro-SSPC border militias, play a role in the ongoing conflict throughout the region. By providing funds to the Burma Army proxy forces that offer them protection, these illegitimate companies indirectly bolster the Burma Army’s violent oppression of the minority groups throughout Burma. The ethnic resistance groups continue in their fight for freedom from the oppression of the SSPC, and it is in this chaotic environment of conflict that these scam centers are thriving, raking in immense wealth from online scam victims while sheltered in a part of the globe that war has made both difficult to reach and almost impossible to investigate. International scam labor...
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Burma Shave?
They will shave your bank account.
I wonder how difficult it would be, really, to shut all the phone scammers down. For example, if whomever doles out new phone #’s charged $1 per phone # issued I suspect that would have a crippling effect on this entire industry. They must be burning through millions of phone #’s daily with people constantly flagging them as scammers so that they must constantly create new ones. Just charge a buck, no one who legitimately needs a phone # is going to balk at that.
They don’t really have ‘phone numbers’ they spoof the information their Voice Over IP system tells caller ID. The numbers that show up on the caller id are fake.
Rats, I had a feeling it wouldn’t be that simple. But given the scope and level of irritation of this scam industry, one would expect some efforts to lock them out. For example, do we need to allow such spoofing or can it be blocked somehow?
Resilience is a feature for the internet. Ideally we could block incoming traffic from India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, etc until their law enforcement actually pursued the perps but the perps could then just use a proxy in another country.
I have a number that was so polluted by scammers I got a new number. I moved the old one to google voice just in case some stray legitimate caller I forgot to notify called.
Every few days I go and clean it out. I get about 80 calls a day on that number for various previous owners. Sometimes while cleaning I get an incoming call. If I’m at work and waiting on a long software build i’ll mess with them just to waste their time so they don’t scam those who might be elderly and/or more trusting.
I get so many calls from a “local” area code number wanting to tell me about my medicare insurance. More calls from “them” than any one else.
What isn’t mentioned is that this site has probably been in operation for 15 years.
They could have shut it down long ago.
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