The Economist.

Previously on Scam Inc.

So I searched on Facebook.

Then there I saw a post like hiring CSR agent bound to Thailand.

We enter the gate.

And inside the gate, you see, it's a whole town.

I said to him, what do you mean I'm going to scam people?

Then as you know, you need to convince people and to invest into crypto.

The place was run by Chinese.

The bosses were Chinese. Rita G Gavesh, Jalil and

Sarah were all trafficked to scam centres in the border regions of Myanmar. Fraud compounds in this

area had been rapidly expanding. Whoever scam Shane Haynes, the CEO of that bank in Kansas, may even have been

working out of a compound here, or somewhere like it. But Myanmar isn't Kansas. There's a

brutal civil war going on, and I couldn't just show up and expect a friendly welcome.

Plus, it's not like the criminals behind the scam compounds are eager to explain

their business model to the economist. But there is one man I was able to speak to, who has been

inside the compounds and who knows the people running them.

Sammy Chen

is a

Taiwanese businessman.

He told me

about a

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