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#540: Thai-Myanmar Abductions/Cyber Fraud

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jim Clemente is Joined by "Mr. Smith" - Cyber security Consultant - as they discuss how china is Mixed up in Thai-Myanmar kidnapping/Cyber Fraud Scheme

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City

0:17.4

Prosecutor and Writer Producer of Criminal Minds and Bluebeard on Audible.

0:21.7

And with me today is a special guest that always remains anonymous.

0:27.8

And that is...

0:29.1

Mr. Smith, feels good to be back, Jim.

0:32.0

And what is your specialty?

0:34.9

I am a cybersecurity analyst and information technologists.

0:38.3

And don't you know a thing or two about hacking as well?

0:42.3

I won't say that on record, but yes, I do.

0:45.3

All right.

0:46.3

So today we're going to be drawing upon your experiences to talk about a phenomenon, a horrific thing that's been going on, and that is people have

0:58.8

been lured from China, from Africa, from all over the world to Thailand, for business

1:07.9

opportunities, for high-paying jobs, for, you know, exceptional experiences, things like that.

1:15.7

And as soon as they get picked up at the airport, they get driven right across the border into Myanmar.

1:24.3

And they are put into a compound which has high walls around its security

1:30.3

fencing and armed guards and they may even be government guards but these people are then

1:39.9

kept there for days, weeks, months, even years. And this is not a handful of people. This is

1:48.6

thousands of people, right? Yes. What we know of currently. Yeah. And the only reason,

1:55.5

we've talked about this before on real crime profile and best case, worst case. The fact is that this has been going on for a long time.

2:04.0

Only it's in Myanmar.

2:05.9

And Myanmar is going through all sorts of political turmoil.

2:11.0

And China is kind of backing the leadership there,

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