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2025-02-27 09:07:48
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr7j18edjo
Mike described being invited a year ago to take up what he was promised would be a good job, in Thailand, requiring only good English language and typing skills.
Instead he found himself subjected to a brutal regime, forced to work long hours every day to meet the target for defrauding people online set by his Chinese bosses.
"It was the worst experience of my life. Of course I was beaten. But believe me I have seen a lot worse done to other people."
Mike is one of an estimated 100,000 people who are believed to have been lured to work in the scam operations along the Thai-Myanmar border, most of them run by Chinese fraud and gambling operatives who have taken advantage of the lawlessness in this part of Myanmar.
Despite horrifying accounts of abuse from those who escaped in the past, thousands still come from parts of the world where good jobs are scarce, enticed by promises of good money.
China, where many of the scam victims come from, has acted to shut down scam operations along its own border with Myanmar, but until this year neither China nor Thailand had done much about the Thai-Myanmar border.