They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar

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duxup · 1h ago

Considering how many people get scammed in given countries, I wish there was some serious international pressure on politicians to stop this sort of thing.

But I suspect the "I got scammed" vote folks are more humiliated and not all that motivated to make it an issue. It's sad.

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They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar

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