These men were conned into taking up fraudulent marketing jobs in Thailand, but landed in Myanmar instead, where they were allegedly held in captivity and forced to honey-trap foreigners, mainly Americans, using fake profiles of female models. “The Chinese men on campus share the X post profiles of some Americans, who are in their mid-40s and 50s and with a huge following on the microblogging social media platform. They ask us to impersonate female models and celebrities, and befriend the Americans using a script given by them. Once they got comfortable with us, we were asked to hand over our chats to our captors, who would scam the Americans using chat details,” he said. “There were three Russian and Chinese women on site, who would impersonate models and speak to them.

Source: Indian Express May 29, 2024 03:19 UTC