Myanmar’s military says it has raided a second major online scam centre

Authorities raided a major scam centre in mid-October called KK Park on the outskirts of Myawaddy, a major trading town on the border with Thailand (Sarot Meksophawannakul/AP)

Myanmar’s military government extended its crackdown on online scam activities to a second major location, detaining hundreds of foreigners and seizing thousands of mobile phones used to carry out the fraud, state media reported.

Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations responsible for defrauding people all over the world, which usually involves gaining victims’ confidence online with romantic ploys and bogus investment schemes.