Name: ‘People are sold every day’: first-hand account of life inside a Myanmar scam centre
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Caroline Qiqige Wang

Thomas Yau

Chinese gig worker Xu Bochun says he was lured to Myanmar in 2023 by a job offer that turned out to be fake. He ended up being sold to a scam centre in Laukkai, the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone bordering China.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Post, Xu gives a detailed account of his experience as a victim of human trafficking. He details how he was forced to work for three months in an online scam centre before he escaped.


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‘People are sold every day’: first-hand account of life inside a Myanmar scam centre

Xu Bochun said he was duped by a fake job offer in 2023 which led to him spending the ‘darkest’ three months of his life trapped in a Myanmar scam centre.

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Xu Bochun said he was duped by a fake job offer in 2023 which led to him spending the ‘darkest’ three months of his life in a scam centre


Xu Bochun said he was duped by a fake job offer in 2023 which led to him spending the ‘darkest’ three months of his life in a scam centre.


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Xu Bochun said he was duped by a fake job offer in 2023 which led to him spending the ‘darkest’ three months of his life in a scam centre