{"id":1809,"date":"2025-02-07T02:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/thailand-cuts-power-and-internet-to-areas-of-myanmar-to-disrupt-scam-gangs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T02:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:03:56","slug":"thailand-cuts-power-and-internet-to-areas-of-myanmar-to-disrupt-scam-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/thailand-cuts-power-and-internet-to-areas-of-myanmar-to-disrupt-scam-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand cuts power and internet to areas of Myanmar to disrupt scam gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Thailand cuts power and internet to areas of Myanmar to disrupt scam gangs<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Well, this is a different approach to the scam problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds.  These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance-baiting scams.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/thailand-cuts-power-and-internet-to-areas-of-myanmar-to-disrupt-scam-gangs\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand cuts power and internet to areas of Myanmar to disrupt scam gangs Well, this is a different approach to the scam problem&#8230; The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,164,734,417,313,735],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-myanmar","category-romance-baiting","category-scam","category-thailand","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}