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- They scam unsuspecting victims across the globe - but they’re victims themselves. Thousands of people are trafficked worldwide into Myanmar's war-torn east, where they are forced to trick people in Europe, the US and China into scam schemes. At KK Park, one of the most notorious facilities, those who refuse risk torture and even murder. DW’s investigative unit went to the borderlands of Thailand and Myanmar to track down the perpetrators behind this multimillion-euro operation. Along the way, they uncovered a vast criminal network leading to a notorious Chinese Triad boss.
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I am from Myanmar. 🇲🇲
I was tricked into working at a gambling website developer in Myanmar.
They get their money from their networks in China.
The company is in Myanmar company directory list, it's name is Tamron Technology.
They rented two office lot in Yangon, Myanmar Plaza office tower.
Aside from gambling websites I believe they also involve in romance scams and other illegal activities.
The company heads are Myanmar born Chinese (mixed with Burmese ethnic people called Shan).
They speak Chinese, so it's so easy for them to get in contact with illegal networks in China. 🇨🇳
just let moroccans cops and thailand cops united against does scammers trust me moroccans most powerful cops in world can bring u from a tunnel
As a Thai I would say that most people that got trafficked are job-seekers that got tricked to go work in Thailand but are actually kidnapped to Myanmar, not random tourists getting dragged off streets. However, the thoughts that people can be kidnapped anywhere here is definitely understandable as our government is doing very little to tackle this problem and not being serious about this issue enough to make tourists feel safe.
Some to myanmar, some to cambodia from what i heard
Thailand is now marked as No-Go. Sad the Government cares little to human trafficking
Nope, some were tricked by tour guide driving them directly to the border and scammer with gun impersonating military. There are HK channel covering this last year.
Govt useless….
My brother was one among this
Meanwhile, in the Northeastern region of Myanmar, the rebel groups seize control of such scam city and freed thousands of human trafficking victims.
Really? That's great to hear!
not rebels just ethnic armed forces who are figting against the military government
More fodder for their guns, it seems...🤷🏻♂️
@@winnielay861 so in other words, rebels
@@PutItAway101 most ppl in myanmar don't consider them as rebels. The only ppl who claims them as rebels are military government and ppl who support them.
this must be shared. some Filipinos has been victimized by this. interpol should n must handle this case. salute for the bravery of this people who rescue the victims. outstanding!
Interpol doesn’t care no one cares they won’t do anything unless there are natural resources next to the factory.
Interpol is to busy starting wars
Duterte 2028. Wag kayo!!
Also Malaysia.
I don't think you understand what Interpol is.
Interpol doesn't have any jurisdiction anywhere, it's not a law enforcement agency.
It's role is more to share information and coordinate police of different countries with each other.
It's not like in the movies where Interpol employees can make arrests and stuff like that. It's a powerless organization by design
Indonesian also victim for this human trafficker included my friend's nephew, promised to get a hotel job in Thailand but now he is ended up in Cambodia. No news for 4 months already.
I hope your friend's nephew is alright, sadly not much the government can do
If you really know that your friend's nephew ended up in Cambodia, you should inform your Indonesian embassy in Cambodia, but not on this nonsense portal or is it just your own imagination.
Praying for his safe return...
He is dead. The ones who survived are the ones who scammed the most money weekly. They have the privilege of transfering money to their family. The bottom tier "sales" performers are beaten up, sent to the mines, feets are disabled and sold to other gangs to beg on the streets.
😢😢
The truth has finally come to light
Truth is you have to be really pathetic in order to allow yourself to be trafficed there
@@stavrosr9819 right. it’s pathetic that it’s still being allowed. He said it so peacefully
Bro, nice realization of the real pathetic human situation for a lot of ppl in these countries, in all areas of 'life'/'society'
Even the rescue team didn't ask Thai police to assist in the rescuing effort. That's said a lot about Thai authorities.
@@stavrosr9819 true. same can be said about scammed too tho :)
I know a lot of my friends who used to work there they were offered 400$/month,they were offered jobs in Thailand as computer assistants and blindfolded from there and trafficked to Myanmar and forced to scam people
@@AnaMaria-wg8xb India !! They were involved in online gaming but they contacted home and came back
Thailand
Yes, Thailand has become a human trafficking hub.
This Myanmar cyber slavery was all over the news in my country last year. The government was also warning people about the likelihood of getting human trafficked in Thailand.
Were any of the rescued...?
This is why people in South East Asia are not going to vacation in Thailand, human trafficking scare is very real and the government should do something about it
Freaking crazy.
@@skyhi9h You mean Kidnap.
@@skyhi9hThat’s what a kidnapper would write on the Internet.
@@skyhi9h What are you smoking 🚬. Why say that statement? Do you have any evidence that they aren't getting Kidnap?
I would only vacation in Japan right now. Many other parts of asia aren't safe.
Heartbroken for all the victims,.one of the worst human trafficking this is Evil scam operation in a human history has recorded 😢😢😢😢
Unfortunately the biggest human trafficking is children all over the world. :(
Some people are living in a daydream of earning big bucks while abroad "traveling". The come on of adventure in living abroad and earning big time.
Real Journalism?
Bloody well done, thank you
I had almost given up hope on seeing stories that the world should be united against
I am from Myanmar. 🇲🇲
I was tricked into working at a gambling website developer in Myanmar.
They get their money from their networks in China.
The company is in Myanmar company directory list, it's name is Tamron Technology.
They rented two office lot in Yangon, Myanmar Plaza office tower.
Aside from gambling websites I believe they also involve in romance scams and other illegal activities.
The company heads are Myanmar born Chinese (mixed with Burmese ethnic people called Shan).
They speak Chinese, so it's so easy for them to get in contact with illegal networks in China. 🇨🇳
Please my brother there what should he do
I see "Why did you redeem" Steve in a whole different light now
There's levels to this, no need to feel sorry for all scammers
@@argumentative2532 yes, that's true.
@@argumentative2532 thats right but honestly I do get their despair sometimes
Why are you redeeeming..!!!! Did I ask you to redeemmm!!!!
Steve lives in India.
The worst cases are those that have paid local “agents” for the high paying job opportunities in Bangkok Thailand and finally realize this is where they end up now they have to make up that money and then pay for transportation to leave aka ransom. I was in KK park
I'm so sorry you went through that.
First of all it is illegal to pay somebody to help you getting a good job in another country, this is illegal emigration and most of the time they end up being sent back. This is just another scam to make them look like victims not as part of the scammers.
These corrupt job brokers prey on poor locals who have no opportunity to get good job without being connected in Thailand!
Also In Laos and Cambodia They have more scammers
Yeah, but Thailand is another level.
@@rlpass.gaming9103 That's right, Laos and Cambodia. There is a much higher level.
@rlpass.gaming9103 Thailand is a mere transit country. Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar are another level. Thailand is safe.
@@ThePatriot-gm1fg Your right👍
Yasssssssss....most dangerous
Eye opening report - excellent journalism.
The world is going to a terrible place 😢
That's how its always been
The good news is that the terribleness keeps coming to light. Once revealed, we can combat it.
@DoloresJNurss how confident are you that we can combat it?
well said
@@cawizardry Curious--my reply vanished. How confident am I that we ca combat the terribleness in the world? If it was me all alone I wouldn't be confident at all. But since I know that I'm not all alone, that I can pray for help at any time, and also that there are many good people in the world, each doing what they can to make this world a better place, then I am confident that good will ultimately prevail.
In Lima, Peru, police arrested some criminals involving in cyber/phone scams. Amongst those arrested are Chinese from China and a few local Peruvians. Not much details has been released yet.
很多都是被中国取消国籍的跨国犯罪集团，他们在缅甸受到打击后，现在集中在迪拜，格鲁吉亚和非洲的一些国家。
Viva Peruuuu!!!!
That's scary
thank you for the report.
Great reporting, keep doing what you do.
Thanks for doing the investigations and reporting on this issue!
We need more college courses, and perhaps high school courses on subjects such as Stopping Human Trafficking and What are Trafficked People Force To Do. Global awareness is critical. What are we up against. Human Rights are for everyone.
Clearly, this report only brushes the surface.
@SkyeRangerNick there was a youtuber just traveling Thailand, and accidently got to close to this place, his video went viral, I'm assuming it caused this investigation
I respectfully accept your comments. We also need the courses, I suggest to put it on middle schools. As a late developing country, we have to do a lot of things. The education is first. Here is the my opinion for your last sentence, Human Rights are for everyone is not fully true. In my country villages were bomed by AirStrike that's surffering every single day. We requested help to @United Nation but we only got, " We are very worry blah blah" and most of helps are passing through Junta and that's sure no helps are arrived to the people. Anyway thank for your messages.
It really comes down to whether the government wants to crack down.
This world has become so wicked for the love of money 😢.
I hope all people here will back safely to their home country. Sending lvoe from native Khmer in Vietnam.
Uh, hold up. Not only does this break international law but warrants actual war powers acts to free the prisoners?
The victims seem to largely come from countries without strong governments or significant military presence.
@@DoloresJNurssthere are tons of Chinese trapped there
@@nanucit Interesting. I missed that. I got that Chinese people were being targeted by the scams, but I didn't realize that they were being victimized on the slave end of it, too.
USA wouldn't do it because this is no Iraq (no oil). China wouldn't do it openly cause they don't want to give the western countries to start painting them as an invasive country. The other big countries wouldn't do it cause it doesn't hurt them enough.
have your head the recent three brotherhoods army? many people says they fight for the democracy, but they are well equipped by a larger country. the funny thing is when this larger country wants the doom of these scam groups, they asked the help of Myanmar Junta to help, buy Junta plays a big role of these scam groups, of course they wouldnt help. So, this larger country is not like EDA of the USA to send troops to Columbia , they find the exiled prince of formal Kokang army. Then, the so called rebellion started.
Great report.
Also in Laos. Why is there no reporting?
Not white
And Cambodia.
Because they're a shady Communist country. Well actually, not quite true. There has been a LOT of reporting from the Golden Triangle SEZ in Laos.
I even was told to go there for work by many friends and other people. But I refused, Thanks God.
Just received a scam text as I was 1:30 into this video. The irony.
This is triangle areas
Burma, Laos and Thailand governments are all partnered doing this kind of businesses for several decades .
International big countries neglect to protect international human rights. Shameful
What they gonna do? Invade these countries? 😂
Cambodia too.
It is not only in Myanmar. It is there in UAE and Qatar, Saudi Arabia,Thailand, I was worked in UAE for this Chinese people...But UAE authority is doesn't know what these Chinese company doing there....
maybe they should start a secret police who work with detecting fraud, scams, and financial crimes as well.
That's true.
leave
Some Chinese inspectors who went to rescue people in Myanmar , were captured and buried alive.
Were you kidnapped and tortured to work for this company in the UAE? What are these Chinese companies doing there which you imply is illegal?
I hope China will not remain neutral. The telecom fraud problem in Myanmar has caused serious losses to the world, and the Myanmar government and some warlords have sheltered criminals. China should directly express its position and send troops to sweep up Myanmar's telecommunications fraud park. During the peak period of telecom fraud in Myanmar, one or two million people participated, which is no longer a simple problem.
There was a reason the civil war happened months ago and China just reported that 5 scam factory leaders was sent to China.
This is China we're talking about, the CCP won't do anything about it and will force the rebels to be completely reliant on the US for military aid should they choose to start giving them it
haha you do knw it is the Chinese mafia that set up the operation and they have ties to the CCP
A wishful thinking. Due to geostrategic reasons, China is Myanmar main partner. This is the reality.
Communist governments tend to place very low value on human life. It's all means to an end, not value in itself.
The funniest part, its been running by Chinese
And also fueled by Chinese.
@@bchompoo Also scam victims are chinese
They are ethnically Chinese, but they aren’t Chinese nationals. The 4 main families have been in Myanmar for several generations and they mainly prey upon Chinese citizens.
I know this. I must say this is the most cruel things I have heard in my 40 years of life.
50+ Sri Lankan are captives of this. Some girls managed to send audio messages in recent months.
Things are lot more worse than explained in this documentary.
They need to shut down that place ASAP! Very scary
Just wondering how much worse it can get
is there a contact for the rescuers? might be more useful next time we get a scam message, instead of reporting as scam, to provide a rescue line number or something. but really, i don't understand how such a big facility can exist, authorities know about it and still not intervene. it's so scary
I imagine the authorities know, but are well paid to do nothing.
The governments benefit from it. Just like many other things. They have to justify keeping a job
Some news local warlords get 30% of the revenue.
Thanks for doing a story on this. Who can help them get out?
Shocking, terrible - send in the military...
Myanmar military is busy with their coup
Be careful what you wish for - what if it is the CHINESE military that gets sent in?
how u know the military isnt involved?
This is scary. Hundred people trap in here. From south east asia , and from other area .
hundreds？hindreds of thoundse to be exact
Hundreds are died to
Many Moroccans too. This is crazy😢
Wait?
What happened to Burma?
I worked in one such compound. But I'm a dentist and they were desperately in need of one so I had much more freedom than most. Even then, my freedom was limited to inside the compound. I needed extensive reporting and waiting for a permit just to go out for a couple of hours a week. I didn't know the nature of their work before I went there but I figured everything out in my first month so I quit immediately although the pay was higher than I've ever made in my entire life (over $1200 in first month: which, for a country like myanmar, is ridiculously high income). I don't know if anyone will see this comment so I'll stop here. If anyone wants to know more, ask in the replies.
The compund you worked at, is the boss the one mentioned here? He owned the whole different compounds or there are other bosses?
please tell us more
@@charliechan8541 These scam sites are not owned by a singular entity. To my knowledge, there are at least 2. The ones in the Shan region and those in the Kayin region are owned by different entities. The compound I worked at was not as bad as the one mentioned in the video but it was still bad.
@@lisawatterson3858 All those scam sites are owned by the chinese (i don't know if individuals or companies) and are spread out along the myanmar-chinese and myanmar-thailand borders. They pay the BGF (a pro-junta armed organization with control over the entire eastern borderline) to guard their property and to stop the people from escaping.
Please tell me more. My brother went to Thailand and I haven’t heard from him in a few days. He said he found a job in Thailand and went there a week ago and haven’t heard from him since. Please tell me more, I’m so scared.
Next telemarketer scam that calls me I'm going to tell them about this report. This should scare everyone.
Finally people seen it not only heard about it
Not just "Crypto Scam" but also online gambling server are located in the same place.
we thought those crypto scam are came from Russia since most big channel got hacked by "Russian crypto", but it came from Myanmar.
For a change it’s good to know these scammers are NOT from India.
Myanmar is not the kind of country you want to go to. Government officials are very aware of these compounds. Where are the Human Rights and Amnesty international groups.
Wasting their energy trying to get genocidal Netanyahu to behave.
They kidnapped from Thailand and Philippines not directly from Myanmar , I dont know how they get border cleaners may government involved in it
Rohingya should get their land back with their rights and dignity.
Palestinians also
@@myrtillesm3532 Greek people too in Turkey territories.
@@myrtillesm3532 Yeah!
Recently, this topic has become very popular in Sri Lanka. You can get more information from Sri Lankan media channels. This is more terrible so, International and human right organizations need to get fast steps for solving this issue.
Yes this is actually true I'm USA 🇺🇸 citizen I came to help get out trapped that place I'm in myanmar side I need to work with people in thailand side ...
So why don't the phone companies in the west do something about this too. Block certain area codes or calls from countries like Myanmar. You would think that with all the technology they could at least try something!
they do not use traditional phones. All scam callcenters use services/software that work via the internet and then emulate basically any area code that works best.
The only way to effectively fight this is by educating people and maybe by making the callsoftware providers liable, because some of those companies know very well that their software is used for fraudulent activity. But they do not care, because they do not face any legal repercussions.
Also prohibitng corruption in those areas and actually punishing those criminals would work, but that is not gonna happen in those areas. There is a reason why call centers are located in certain areas, and it is not because everybody there is happy to scam people it is because corrrupt police allows it.
Because it's their job to ENABLE phone calls from everywhere to everywhere. There are international treaties for that.
Scammers use VoIP - local numbers that work via internet. I urge you to educate yourself before you propose to cut telecoms cables.
They don't do phone calls anymore
never heard of VPN? HAHA. All calls can be masked.
This is horrific
When it comes to Human Trafficking, the likelihood of being kidnapped is less to none. Traffickers generally don't want any type of media coverage or police interference since kidnapping generates media coverage. They most likely lure people to a promise of a job but then when the victim arrive there they don't realize they've already been trafficked.
You should continue to provide continuous coverage of what is happening in Gaza too.
Thats why China loves the Myanmar Military Junta.
A lot of Filipinos were victims of human trafficking, UN should see this matter a global threat. For companies supplying internet services to these companies, they should also be held accountable for scamming activities in such a large scale.
This is very alarming and saddening.
Show us pictures of these mafia bosses.
Jason never blinked his eye,...
Oh 😢
I never heard of that, I'm european and have been looking into SEA's fascinating history lately and it led me to this video. I am shocked and at a loss for words, is there anything a single person far away can do to help? I will definitely talk about this to people I know.
Many and many fellow Moroccan brothers and sisters were kidnapped this way after being offered jobs in the tech industry with good salaries.... Allah yahfadhom ya rabi
These criminal operations need internet connection. How hard could it be to sever their connection to the Internet, I wonder.
I have my story to add as well, whom can I contact?
Myanmar also did a genocide so why is anyone surprised?
Myanmar Military*
This place handled by Chinese at the boarder
They should check all this compounds . Politicians are completely useless
Just a simple question.this very huge operation the government of myanmar cannot stop? And what is UN doing about this?
I have investigated this compound last year and I enter there for 5 months and save thousands people.
This is so sick.
Achievements of civilization
Cambodia also has scam markets, my friend got recruited couple of months before, he suffered a lot to reach back from there to native.
Wtf is a West African doing in myanmar
How did he get there seriously?
Human trafficking.
from thailand to myanmar human trafficking
Good job for shining a light on this, but wouldn't this in depth reporting and telling the world how the victims are able to flee make the kidnappers more alert and stringent and ultimately making it more difficult for other trapped individuals to flee?
In my country, we were warned never to go to Myanmar
No one is safe in Myanmar.
NATO should intervene, why attacking western cyberspace is left unpunished?
Are we that bored, botski? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
room temp IQ take
NATO is for North Atlantic
This horrifying
Funfact: Myanmar have overtaken Afghanistan as the largest producer of opium in the world.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
UNODC: Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban
ONLY after U$Ass departure , Afghanistan able to close down most opium production.
Now you know who is the culprit .
myanmar sounds like a whole big problem omg
imagine being a border to Myanmar, this people are literally coming to our state and starting a war. :(@@cstpa1
Many of the victims were smuggled from Thailand. Thailand is a dangerous country 🇹🇭 😢
That's more than evil 🤬
we need to work together and free innocent people...
There are hundreds of victims from Sri Lanka in these facility some came back to Sri Lanka by paying hefty amounts to them all those workers are skilled workers not some low level employees. Our government tried hard to get the rest of them but they just denied every request showing no cooperation. Afghanistan is good and cooperative compared to this Myanmar junta.
They source people through bogus job agencies around the world they pay a huge amount of money to agencies to lie to their job seekers, often these agencies ran by the same country where victims come which is sickening scamming its own blood.
My friend arrived in thailand and connecting flight to cambodia last jun 1 ,2024 then until now jun 7, 2024 we havent recieved any calls from him. Hes phone is shut down. We are all worried now. He went there for a job interview and now no idea where he is now.
This is owned and operated by the Chinese.
1 Malaysian job seeker have been killed in Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand used for transit point.
it is just very small fraction comparing to Sihanouk ville in Cambodia
My friend went there (Thailand) with a promise of care-giving which will be paying $40/hr. We've never heard of him since
Its hard to imagined such scam continue not just myanmar 🇲🇲 but other places around the globe. The government must give possible effort to set free. But in some cases even the officials are involved and it become impossible to make job done. The lives of many innocent are shattered under this kind of menaces. 😎
This is pure evil
Not only myanmar, Cambodia too. Many of my countrymen were rescued in recent years
Few months ago some Sri Lankan people escape from the site.
The worst thing was those victims of trafficking once they are not making money enough many were killed and the traffickers sold their organs. The top coup Burmese military high ranks have been deeply involved in this operation along with ethnic militias who are under their controlled. Many Chinese descends like KuKang militia who are formed under Burmese military power.
five million subs congrats! let's go DW
4.99 actually
The world of Leaders should not be blind to this life and death matter . May God guide them can find the very right persons of this case who control and support .
They have been recruiting young people in Brazil.
Another form of modern slavery.
Same thing in Cambodia ,please investigate that too. If you want to investigate I will help you to provide details of these scammers ,so you could reach them. Thousands of people are already trapped in their scam.
That's 'Gray Chinese Gangsters' den. well under one of these armed factions in Shan states domain.
Please help that area peoples
Where’s the UN