These spillover sites, as the UN calls them, allow Asian OCGs to expand their pool of victims by hiring/trafficking locals ...

More recently, scam centers that have bilked victims out of billions of ... but also a hedging against future risks should disruption continue and intensify in Southeast Asia,” Benedikt Hofmann, UNODC ...

The crime syndicates are raking in billions through fraud and crypto laundering, operations now reaching five continents ...

In 2023, they made an estimated $37bn in cyber-enabled fraud at home, but these Asian crime groups are also expanding into ...

As Thailand launches an aggressive crackdown on transnational scam networks through the newly established Task Force 88, ...

WEST GOSHEN TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- A Chester County police department is warning about a new scam that has already ensnared at least one local victim. In the scam, culprits threaten the victims ...

As previously reported by the Tennessean, the scam first appeared in 2024 and resurfaced in February. According to an FBI alert from April 2024, the bureau received over 2,000 complaints regarding ...

More recently, scam centers that have bilked victims out ... but also a hedging against future risks should disruption continue and intensify in Southeast Asia,” Benedikt Hofmann, UNODC's ...

FILE - People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the ...