Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers

Not just scam gangs, the thugs collaborative with military,kidnap and sell youths to junta for

1. Forced military drafting.

2. Human trafficking

3. Organ harvesting .

That what military dictatorship done to our democractic country within 5 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Wang_Xing

There was even a Chinese blockbuster movie about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets

But the scammer choose lawless places like Myanmar for a reason and while China can exert pressure on individual bigwigs, they can't stop those small enough to fly under the radar.

Thai authorities are trying to combat this issue by cutting off supply of basic utilities (electricity, network connection) to hinder their work. The government claimed that this reduces the volume of scam attempts by 20%, though it's not entirely gone as long as they can find a way to circumvent it

We will lose a lot though; the most prosperous societies really rely on high levels of interpersonal trust (which allows people to easily do things together, whether that's leaving their buggy outside when they go to buy a coffee or commercial relations). It would be a shame to see that get destroyed.

On the capability side, I say hello _when you call me_ differently than _when I call you_. Anybody who knows me will certainly have a sense something is off.

Socially, we all should be used to the idea of calling back using official numbers, and not closing an agreement on the first call.

But this is a numbers game. I imagine this vector would be more successful on third-world migrant workers, than in the first-world economies.

You don't need to clone someone's voice for that; that's a scam common enough that one of my parents almost fell for it. Cloning someone's voice might tick up the likelihood of success by some amount, but would the investment in the research-and-infrastructure (spinning up the machines to clone the voice, researching the person you're planning on scamming to find their relatives' phone numbers, etc) be worthwhile when you can just dial every phone number in the tri-state area and just try it with a panicked-sounding young woman's voice?

When it comes to scams, part of the scam is aiding the victim to making a transaction in a way that can’t be reversed. Cryptocurrencies, call cards, gift cards, even in-game currencies for online games. As long as it is liquid and carries a value, some entrepreneurial scammer will try to use it to increase their profit. Official currency transfer channels (banks, remittance centers) are usually the focus of laws and law enforcement, so scammers know to move to other forms of value. Cut-outs and fences are common in many forms of scams because these are tools that help them avoid the banking systems until the scammed value is laundered.