{"id":75458,"date":"2025-12-02T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/what-are-scam-centres-explained-in-30-seconds"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:23:19","slug":"what-are-scam-centres-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75458","title":{"rendered":"What are scam centres \u2013 explained in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the multibillion dollar scam industry, which has proliferated in the region in recent years<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Scam centres are compounds often linked to transnational criminal networks that are part of a global, multibillion dollar online fraud industry that has proliferated in south-east Asia in recent years. Countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the criminal activity, which spans online fraud, human trafficking, slavery and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Lawless border areas in the region have become particular areas of concern, with satellite imagery and research showing that scam operations have more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/08\/myanmar-military-junta-scam-centres-trafficking-crime-syndicates-kk-park\">doubled along the Thai-Myanmar border<\/a> since Myanmar\u2019s junta seized power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/what-are-scam-centres-explained-in-30-seconds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the multibillion dollar scam industry, which has proliferated in the region in recent yearsScam centres are compounds often linked to transnational criminal networks that are part of a global, multibill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,82,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75459,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions\/75459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}