Southeast Asia Scammers Stole Up to $37 Billion in 2023, UN Says
WEB1 day ago · Cyber crime syndicates raked in as much as $37 billion last year and are intensifying operations across Southeast Asia despite mounting law enforcement efforts, the United Nations said.
Telegram app hosts ‘underground markets’ for Southeast Asian …
WEB18 hours ago · Dado Ruvic/Reuters. Bangkok, Thailand (Reuters) — Powerful criminal networks in Southeast Asia extensively use the messaging app Telegram which has enabled a fundamental change in the way ...
UN warns of growing tech threat from Southeast Asia’s cyber …
WEB1 day ago · UN warns of growing tech threat from Southeast Asia’s cyber scam gangs. In this photo released by Thailand's Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, policemen talk to suspects, wearing light green ...
Billion-dollar cyberfraud industry expands in Southeast Asia as ...
WEB1 day ago · UNODC estimates financial losses between US $18 billion and $37 billion from scams targeting victims in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 alone, with a high proportion of these losses attributed to scams committed by organized crime groups in Southeast Asia. The report also notes a rise in AI-driven crimes involving deepfakes, demonstrated by ...
China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets …
WEBOct 24, 2023 · Tens of thousands of people, many of them Chinese, have been caught up in cyber scams based in Southeast Asia. Local and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown on such schemes, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are running the scams.
Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia …
WEBGENEVA (29 August 2023) – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling - a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows.
Hundreds of thousands trafficked into online criminality ... - UN News
WEBAug 29, 2023 · Criminal gangs in southeast Asia are using torture and abuse to force hundreds of thousands of people into an online scam operation which generates billions of dollars per year, the UN rights...
UN warns massive billion-dollar fraud networks are on the rise in ...
WEB7 hours ago · A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has revealed crime syndicates in Southeast Asia are increasingly using technologies such as deepfakes, malware, and generative AI in ...
Cyber Fraud Cost up to $37bn in Southeast Asia Last Year
WEB10 hours ago · James Coker. Cyber-enabled fraud resulted in up to $37bn in losses for victims in East and Southeast Asia in 2023, with governments left unable to contain these threats, a United Nations (UN) report has warned. The analysis by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) highlighted that …
Southeast Asian Scam Hubs Drawing Global Scrutiny as Reach …
WEBDec 23, 2023 · BANGKOK — Southeast Asia’s online scam hubs are drawing growing attention from governments and law enforcement agencies well beyond the region as the criminal syndicates behind them search...