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On November 9, Japanese media reported that a Chinese national was arrested for illegally setting up fake base stations used for telecom fraud, which caused financial losses to Japanese citizens and Chinese tourists.
On November 5, the Lao Ministry of Public Security raided a rental house in Vientiane suspected of being involved in cyber fraud and illegal online gambling, detaining 26 Chinese nationals and one Thai national, and seizing 805 mobile phones and multiple computers. A 31-year-old local female translator who attempted to bribe police for their release was also detained. Police are currently tracking down the organizers behind the operation.
On October 29, Li Yuchen published a compilation of 38 past WeChat Official Account articles written by the late anti-fraud influencer “Huijian” (real name Wu Kai) before his death. None of the main texts could be opened, and 18 of them showed as “deleted by the publisher.” These articles had previously named and exposed scam compounds, companies, and specific individuals, down to the office door numbers of specific companies in KK Park. According to the second-instance judgment, Wu Kai was forced to delete the articles after being abducted.
Jiemian News reported on October 27 that blogger “Hui Jian” Wu Kai, who long exposed the inside story of telecommunications fraud in northern Myanmar and Cambodia, was abducted, beaten, and killed in China in November 2024.
On October 25, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security announced the progress of the investigation into a telecom fraud case at a hotel in Thanh Hoa Province, stating that 89 people had been criminally charged and detained, including 88 foreign nationals and 1 Vietnamese citizen.
On October 23, a Hearthstone player posted a plea for help on the gaming community Lvfashi Camp, saying he had been kidnapped in Thailand and taken to a telecom fraud park in Myawaddy, Myanmar. The park holds about 700 to 800 people, 80 percent of whom were abducted from Thailand. His family has reported the case to the police at home and sought help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but he has still not been rescued.
Thai police launched an investigation based on leads provided by Liu, searching 3 residences in the Sai Mai district of Bangkok on October 22, apprehending 14 suspects; each person’s specific role is still under investigation.
On the afternoon of October 21, Myanmar security forces arrested 99 Chinese nationals (95 men and 4 women) inside a corrugated iron factory of about 465 square meters in Monghsat Township, Eastern Shan State, seizing 13 all-in-one computers, 193 mobile phones, and two sets of Starlink equipment, accusing them of being involved in online fraud and online gambling. The Myanmar side said they would be handled according to the law after investigation.
On October 20, Malaysian police raided four hotel rooms at a hotel in Raia, Malacca, arresting 14 Chinese nationals (11 men and 3 women) suspected of online investment fraud. The base had been operating since mid-September, luring Chinese citizens into fake investment projects under the guise of customer service. Police seized 28 mobile phones and 96 prepaid SIM cards at the scene.
On October 17, Vietnamese police raided a hotel in Thanh Hoa Province booked by a telecom fraud ring led by Chinese nationals, detaining 118 people, including 74 Chinese citizens. The gang's equipment was shipped in from Cambodia, and they had agreed not to defraud Vietnamese people, splitting into groups to target Taiwanese women and Chinese gamblers. On October 25, authorities announced that 89 people had been criminally charged and placed in custody.
According to a post by X user @jielijian citing an Al Jazeera report, secretly recorded evidence of the Chinese government and the Southeast Asia telecom fraud supply chain has been exposed. The report discloses details of Chinese Communist Party spies from Cambodia meeting in multiple locations in Guangzhou, points out that the Chinese government invested 350 million dollars in a military runway to supply the CCP military port in Djibouti, and mentions that female employees of CCP agents provided close, close-quarters protection to Xi Jinping's visiting delegation.
On October 12, police in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, raided an abandoned resort and a residential building, arresting 40 suspects, 34 of whom were Chinese citizens. The gang impersonated Chinese prosecutors and police, targeting Chinese citizens through Microsoft Teams in a scam. Victims included people living in the United States, and the operation had been running for about one month.
A 16-year-old Chinese netizen submitted a plea for help, saying he was in a scam park called "Ruidangni" (also known as "Xintiandi Park") on the Thailand-Myanmar border and hoped to leave and return home. The park reportedly gathers about 1,700 people, and around 2,200 including logistics staff, and is run under high-pressure security management, maintaining order through beatings, verbal abuse and corporal punishment. It engages in targeted-chat scam operations aimed at the domestic market, and is suspected of cross-border fraud and forced labor.
Michael Vance, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, held direct talks with the Myanmar military junta, with both sides focusing on shutting down scam centers targeting Americans and cooperation on rare earths; Myanmar subsequently released the American businessman Castillo.
On October 5, Malaysian immigration enforcement officers raided a suspected fraud center in Lembing, Pahang state, arresting 98 people, 88 of whom were Chinese nationals. The resort's owner was also detained. 120 sets of computers, 100 mobile phones, and 11 Starlink devices were seized at the scene, and the detainees were sent to Putrajaya for investigation.