- There are hundreds of scam farms across Southeast Asia, the UN says
- Local governments make raids, but they are ineffective
- Industry is spreading in Africa and South America
Despite governments and law enforcement agencies in the Southeast Asian region by doing their best to contain the threat, the scam industry is booming, taking advantage of the fact that there are many distant and inaccessible regions and many impoverished and underestimated people to abuse.
It is according to a new report from the United Nations Bureau on drugs and crime (UNODC). As Cybernews reported, the Onudc said that the scam industry is “several billion dollars” and that it extends worldwide to include South America and Africa.
He is from Southeast Asia, where there are “hundreds” of large-scale farms, housing tens of thousands of workers. Some of these people have even been treated and forced to work on these scam farms. These farms generate “tens of billions of dollars” of annual profits, the ONUDC said.
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The governments of the countries of Southeast Asia, such as China, Thailand, Myanmar and many others, are constantly trying to disturb these activities, but they apparently not get much, because the groups can simply resume and move elsewhere.
“He spreads as a cancer,” said Benedikt Hofmann, an interim regional representative of the UNODC for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. “The authorities treat it in an area, but the roots never disappear; They simply migrate. “
“The regional cyberfraute industry … has exceeded other transnational crimes, since it is easily scalable and capable of reaching millions of potential online victims, without needing to move or circulate illicit goods through borders,” said John Wojcik, regional analyst at UNODC.
The report mentions the repressions in the “lawless areas” of the Thai -yanmar, Cambodia and elsewhere. Criminals simply migrate to Laos, Myanmar and other most distant, vulnerable and sub-prepares of Southeast Asia “.
The money stolen by fraud must still be bleached, which is why these groups are developing in Africa and South America, where they combine with drug cartels. The Onudc says that operations are being created in Zambia, Angola and Namibia, but also in Eastern European countries like Georgia.
Via Cyberness
