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CCP Likely Enabling Industrial Cyber Scamming of US Nationals, Say Experts

With 'tens or hundreds of billions of dollars' unaccounted for, 'it is hard to believe that China would not be benefiting from that in some way,' West said.

Erin West watched as a Chinese jet touched down at the airport in tropical Mae Sot, Thailand.It was the first of 20 such flights, taking thousands of Chinese nationals away from a life of forced labor in the vast prison-like scam center compounds across the border in Burma (also known as Myanmar).Those compounds, and others like them in Cambodia and Laos, are the center of a global cybercrime web that now snares trillions of dollars each year.

Its first victims, however, are hundreds of thousands of trafficked scam center workers—an estimated 120,000 in Burma alone, according to a 2023 United Nations report...

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