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How global scammers use US tech to fleece peopleIndian scammer Safeer Koorimannil reveals how AI from American tech giants fuels global fraud rings in Myanmar. Trafficked to a scam center...- Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...
- Myanmar assures India against allowing its territory against India’s security interestsPrime Minister Narendra Modi and Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing held talks in New Delhi focused on security cooperation, border manageme...
- 'Seriously concerned': Quad joint statement flags water cannons, blocked ships in South and East China SeasIndia, US, Japan, and Australia foreign ministers met in New Delhi. They voiced serious concerns over the South China and East China Seas. ...
- What makes the Rs 90,000-crore Great Nicobar Island project critical for India both militarily and economicallyIndia is undertaking a massive Rs 90,000 crore project in Great Nicobar. This initiative will develop a major transshipment port and intern...
- WhatsApp to roll out SIM binding, tighten curbs on digital arrest scamsWhatsApp has agreed to implement SIM binding and enhanced safeguards against prolonged scam calls, as per a Supreme Court filing. The compa...
- UK sanctions Cambodia-based scam centre and crypto platformBritain has imposed sanctions on operators of a massive fraud compound in Cambodia and an online crypto marketplace. These entities are acc...
- China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based scam syndicateChina has executed eleven members of a Myanmar-based crime syndicate. This group was responsible for the deaths of fourteen Chinese citizen...
- Why Southeast Asia's online scam industry is so hard to shut downA major online scam network leader has been arrested and extradited. This industry has stolen billions globally. Victims are often lured by...
- Dozens of South Koreans repatriated from Cambodia arrested for alleged online scam workDozens of South Koreans returned from Cambodia face arrest. They are accused of working for online scam groups. These groups have caused wi...
- South Korea targets Cambodia’s scam industry after kidnappings, torture and a deathWith a growing crisis at hand, South Korea is proactively seeking to repatriate its citizens from Cambodia, where an alarming number have f...
- Job aspirants from Andhra Pradesh continue to fall victims to Southeast Asia scam centersUnemployed youths from Vizag and Vijayawada are falling victim to cyber scams in Southeast Asian countries like Myanmar and Cambodia, lured...
- Meta says working to thwart WhatsApp scammersMeta said it shut down nearly seven million scam-linked WhatsApp accounts in the first half of 2025, mostly in Southeast Asia. Scams includ...
- 'Pig Butchering' Scam: How China's 'Broken Tooth' stole over $75 bn from global investors using crypto currenciesPig-butchering scams, a sophisticated form of cyber fraud, have defrauded victims of over $75 billion globally, exploiting cryptocurrencies...
- Cyber Crime: Scammers stole up to $37 bn; intensifying operations in Southeast AsiaCyber crime syndicates accumulated up to $37 billion last year and are increasing their activities in Southeast Asia. Despite law enforceme...
- 90,000 scams in 4 months: How Southeast Asia is becoming the next Jamtara; Fraudsters recruiting from Andhra, TN, OdishaIndia faces a surge in cyber fraud from Southeast Asia, surpassing domestic hotspots. Nearly half of the defrauded money comes from scams s...
- Trafficking for cyber fraud an increasingly globalised crime, Interpol saysThe global police coordination body said law enforcement from more than 20 countries in October carried out inspections at hundreds of traf...
- China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets thousands but leaves networks intactTens of thousands of people, mostly but not all Chinese, have become ensnared in cyber scam networks run by powerful Chinese criminal syndi...
- Thailand threatens Facebook with legal action over alleged scamsThe ministry said it made repeated requests for advertisements it had identified as scams to be taken down by Facebook but the problem pers...
- Chinese criminal syndicates under guise of business ventures on the rise in SE AsiaSeveral Chinese syndicates are along the border between Cambodia and Thailand. The syndicates have taken advantage of COVID-19 which has re...
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