Cruel adventure that of dozens of young Moroccans, who find themselves plunged into the hell of digital mafias, in the hands of armed groups which operate in a vast geographical area of South-East Asia, on the borders between Myanmar (or Burma) and Thailand.
Assaba from this Tuesday, April 30, 2024 relates the trap into which they fell, forced to work for these cyber-criminal mafias, in fraudulent exchanges of crypto-currencies or scams operating in e-commerce.
According to the daily, these Moroccans found themselves, by the dozens, being kidnapped, kidnapped and tortured, and are today cruelly exploited in these mafia businesses.
Based on the testimony of the sister of one of these victims, kidnapped by armed groups on the borders between these two countries, Assaba writes that “the Moroccans sequestered in this [aire géographique] of Southeast Asia are ruthlessly exploited by armed groups in the business of online fraud and scams“.
According to Assabathey find themselves being “severely punished and tortured, if they express the wish to leave the place to return to their country“.
The Source interviewed by the daily specifies that “the kidnapping of his brother and other Moroccans, including a woman, had been carefully planned“.
Concerning the techniques used for this online spear phishing, according to the testimony of this Source, “upon his brother’s return from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he was working in an online business, he received a phone call from another Moroccan, asking him to go to Thailand to work in a similar business there.“.
His interlocutor, explained the sister of this Moroccan sequestered among dozens of others, had promised him that his affairs will be “fruitful for him” in this country.
According to this Source, “the entire journey had been taken care of. [Son frère] had been greeted on arrival like a celebrity, with attendants and a luxury car, which had been made available to him in Malaysia, where he had a stopover at a luxury hotel, then he took another flight to Thailand, where his adventure ended at the borders with Myanmar“.
His nightmare, like that of dozens of other Moroccans, then began. The people sequestered in this vast geographical area, explains Assabafind themselves forced to work in fraudulent business setups, as well as in false cryptocurrency exchange sites, for the benefit of armed groups, in whose hands this geographical area is located, which escapes the control of the Thai authorities and those of Myanmar.
By Mohamed Younsi
04/29/2024 at 7:22 p.m.
