UN เตือนว่า แก๊งคอลเซ็นเตอร์ "แพร่เหมือนมะเร็ง" ไปทั่วโลกแล้ว
Summary
The UN warns that scam centres are expanding out of Southeast Asia across the world, describing the spread as "like a cancer".
Total damage is estimated above $36.5 billion a year, with operations now reaching Europe, the Americas, Africa and South Asia.
This is not only fraud: it is directly tied to human trafficking, since many of the people inside these centres were deceived into going.
Even wealthy, well-educated countries produce victims, which refutes the idea that only the uninformed get caught.
The response has to be international, because the networks relocate across borders faster than any single country’s law can follow.
Key points
No longer a regional problem
What started in Southeast Asia is now global.
The damage is at national-economy scale
$36.5 billion a year is not petty crime.
Trafficking is built into the structure
Many of the people in these centres are victims, not perpetrators.
Education is not armour
Developed countries produce plenty of victims, because the scripts are designed to pass.
They relocate faster than the law
When one country cracks down, the network moves to weaker enforcement.
It requires international cooperation
Enforcement inside one country cannot solve it.