China Repatriates Another 900 From Myanmar Scam Centers

YANGON, Myanmar—China has repatriated more than 900 citizens it suspects of working in internet scam centers in Myanmar’s borderlands, a Beijing ministry said.

Myanmar’s many-sided civil war—sparked by a 2021 coup—has enabled the rapid growth of lucrative internet fraud factories established in its loosely governed borderlands.

Many people have said they were trafficked into often heavily fortified scam compounds to target victims with romance or business scams on social media, luring them into making untraceable cryptocurrency