Japan fears Myanmar scammers will lure more youths to crime

Dang, sounds harsh. If it sounds too good to be true.... perhaps it is.

Troubled by problems at home...

Easy to make mistakes when you are desperate and it's cruel how the bad guys always know where to look.

Nothing should come as a surprise, like say chinese kidnapping a famous chinese celebrity and holding him hostage in a third world country…who is also complicit

Japanese police learned in interviews with the high school boys upon their return to Japan that they had been told the work would be easy and they would be well compensated, including having their travel costs covered

Sounds like some of the stuff going on right here with foreign interns, farm workers and such. Lots of people get lured to Japan with promises like those. Good the boys got out of it relatively unscathed. It shouldn't happen to anyone anywhere.

"" In the wake of the rescue of two Japanese teens who had been lured into working for scam syndicates in Myanmar, concerns are growing that more youths may be drawn into the fraudulent schemes operated by shady overseas groups. ""

A Minor Correction,

In the wake of the rescue of two Japanese teens who had been lured into working for scam syndicates in Myanmar, concerns are growing that more youths may be drawn into the fraudulent schemes OPERATED BY JAPANESE LIVING ABROAD.

Only a Japanese can convince these youngsters to JOIN.

Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened, it has also occurred in Cambodia, where young people were also caged in a building and treated very poorly if they complained or tried to get out. It was also run by Chinese.

The BBC recently did a feature programme on this, featuring a Sri Lankan lady who had been lured over there. Starvation, beastings, tasering was the norm for not meeting quotas. Overseas military in charge, along with some locals. Myanmar has been involved in these and other scams since the 1990s, including providing labour to factories in Thailand, where they were mysteriously rescued and repatriated, close to the end of their contract period, and just before they were going to be paid in full.

There is no such things as easy money, if its easy money you could just go pluck it from a tree and everyone would have it. Easy money means tainted money, when some one offers you a job or anything with the conversation of saying its easy money one should ask why aren't you doing the job etc.. if its that easy. Most people have the thought that they never have enough money.

The title is wrong. It's not the "Myanmar scammers" who are sc-um:

A Chinese criminal organization is believed to have established a stronghold in eastern Myanmar near the Thai border

Japan needs to impose an embargo against Myanmar and deny them access to anime.

"In the wake of the rescue of two Japanese teens who had been lured into working for scam syndicates in Myanmar, concerns are growing that more youths may be drawn into the fraudulent schemes operated by shady overseas groups."

Ummm... Japan is still the world's biggest labor trafficker, and even the so-called "intern program" well known to be nothing more than a trafficking program. And you gotta love how Japan cries victim here and talked about the fear of foreign groups when these kids were undoubtedly lured over there by a Japanese working the whole thing, or at least Japanese middle-men here. In 2023 alone more than 69 Japanese nationals were caught operating crime rings here and overseas in nations like Cambodia, the Philippines, and more, and the latter were extradicted back to Japan after being arrested in said nations.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15099258

There was a Japanese TV series on running scams and they blamed the older generation for not trickling down their wealth to the younger generation and horde their money until they pass away

Sounds like some of the stuff going on right here with foreign interns, farm workers and such. Lots of people get lured to Japan with promises like those. Good the boys got out of it relatively unscathed. It shouldn't happen to anyone anywhere.

Exactly! You beat me to it. No different than the scam the Gov runs here in Japan.

Ummm... Japan is still the world's biggest labor trafficker, and even the so-called "intern program" well known to be nothing more than a trafficking program. And you gotta love how Japan cries victim here and talked about the fear of foreign groups when these kids were undoubtedly lured over there by a Japanese working the whole thing, or at least Japanese middle-men here. In 2023 alone more than 69 Japanese nationals were caught operating crime rings here and overseas in nations like Cambodia, the Philippines, and more, and the latter were extradicted back to Japan after being arrested in said nations

smithinjapan- well said mate!