Myanmar is a relatively magical country, with a population of about 54.58 million, divided into 135 ethnic groups, mainly Burmese. Although more than 80% of the people believe in the F religion, civil wars still occur from time to time, especially in the northern region of Myanmar that we call today, which has become a sin city in the eyes of many people. So why is northern Myanmar chaotic? Today we will talk about the magical northern Myanmar. Myanmar is a federal state with seven provinces, seven states, and two municipalities. The so-called northern Myanmar region refers to the area composed of Magway and Mandalay provinces, as well as Chin, Kayah, Kachin and Shan states. Among them, Shan State is the largest and most populous state in the Union of Myanmar, with 60% of the population belonging to the Shan ethnic group. The Shan people in Myanmar, the Dai people in China, and the Tai people in Thailand are actually different names for one ethnic group in their respective families, with the same root and origin. During the Tang Dynasty, the Shan State was called the State of Nanzhao and was under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, it became the Kingdom of Dali, that is, the State of Dali in Jin Yong's novel. This F-religion belief was born during the Dali period, and almost every emperor became a monk. Since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Myanmar has jumped wildly left and right on the border, triggering the Far Burma War, the Ming-Burma War, and the Qing-Burma War. It was not until 1894, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, that Britain signed a Sino-British agreement with the Qing government, and Yunnan and Burma borrowed trade conditions, and Shan State was occupied by the British. After Myanmar's independence in 1948, it invaded Shan State on the grounds of expelling the Kuomintang from the army. Since then, Shan State has become the border of Myanmar. To say that it is the border of Myanmar is actually self-aware.
For example, in 1993, Shan State declared an independent State. Even today, there are frequent frictions and even wars with Myanmar, similar to the state of warlord separation, which is equivalent to our former Warring States, Three Kingdoms, and Republic of China. The same. This is the main reason for the turmoil in northern Myanmar. And this so-called secession does not mean that Shan State is divided, but within Shan State. For example, the Wa State and Kokang below it are independent forces. According to statistics, there are at least 17 armed forces large and small in northern Myanmar. Because of this historical background, it is not difficult to understand why Wa Kokang can speak Mandarin and why it uses the domestic currency. Many people even think that when they come to Wa State, they will go to the country. Many friends of the three countries know that if a place wants independence, it must have its own armed army. The team needs adequate funding. But here the forest is dense, the resources are scarce, there is no development at all, how to raise funds?
First of all, the first method that comes to their mind is the planting factor. This is the same as in the Republic of China. Warlords during the Republican period also used this method to maintain a state of separation. The difference is that the Republic of China uses forces such as Du Yuesheng to operate underground. It's different in northern Myanmar, it's directly on the table. So at the end of the last century, an area called the Golden Triangle appeared, which refers to the triangle formed by the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. Nine times out of ten, Hong Kong films during this period will mention this place. At its peak, almost every household in northern Myanmar was involved in cultivation, and the Golden Triangle once became the world's largest poppy cultivation area. About 70% of the world's H heroin comes from here. Local farmers did not consider opium poppy cultivation to be a crime, and warlords encouraged it. Later, in order to solve this problem, China proposed alternative planting schemes, that is, replacing the original planting elements of local farmers with various crops to ensure local sales. Since then, the Golden Triangle has gradually withdrawn from history and Hong Kong cinema.
After the drug ban, the warlords turned their attention to the yellow gambling industry. In the current Wa State, for example, casinos and flower girls can be found everywhere on the streets, and they are all legally operated, but despite this, the consumption is surprisingly high, and most of the high-consumption services are several times that of the Chinese, but are the locals in northern Myanmar who carry out telecom fraud. Of course not, because domestic wire transfer fraud has been hit more seriously in recent years, and fraudsters also think that domestic fraud is too risky, so most of them have fled to Southeast Asia. In the beginning, the first choice for these people was the Philippines, Malaysia and other places, but because these places did not need this income, coupled with our official pressure, they had to flee to northern Myanmar. It is a treasure land of feng shui. The first is the three-way zone, which local warlords still support, and even hope to develop online gambling and telecom fraud into an alternative to D-products. The Wa State, for example, has turned the region into an industry, and it has an official name called Network B-game.
Companies operating such businesses must apply for the relevant certificates. Network B game can be said to be quite magical. The last point is that it is close to the Chinese border, so that they can deceive people. Because Chinese are the best at deceiving Chinese. We used to say that Chinese didn't lie to Chinese, but in fact Chinese did lie to Chinese. Because he really had a hard time getting started because of the different languages. After the development of the network B color industry in northern Myanmar, there was a shortage of manpower, so they began to find ways to deceive domestic people into northern Myanmar, and then use them to carry out telecommunications fraud. The most commonly used channels are various recruitment websites or social platforms to post relevant job postings, and then use the cover of the primitive jungle to pass the level. Confess. According to one victim, because he saw relevant information on a social platform, he finally couldn't stand the temptation of the other party's high salary, and crossed the China-Myanmar border in a wit. Then he was taken to an industrial park, and later found out that the car was the car of a local force. Generally, these companies will and must work with these local forces.
This is done by providing them with high rents, licence fees and related taxes, and then they provide housing for these groups. Upon arrival, he found at least 60 desks in an office of less than 200 square meters. Everyone types mechanically on a computer or mobile phone. The job is telecom fraud. The specific process is roughly like this. First of all, there are special personnel who will find customers from various platforms, usually accurate to age and characteristics, such as a rich man in his 40s working in a foreign country, or a divorced eldest sister, with enough funds? In their eyes, same-sex friends and elderly rich women are the two most high-quality groups. Once the relevant customer is found, the company pushes this information to customer service. These people are the so-called dog pushes. Generally, those who are deceived in the country are to Myanmar. Most of the victims do this work, mainly by committing scams on social software through professionally crafted texts.
Sometimes one person has to contact at least 20 clients, and of course this is only one of those projects. In addition, the entire industry also provides website development services, that is, various B-color websites provide traffic drainage and technical services. This technical service includes special verbal tricks or customer referral and, finally, specific fraudulent operations. It can be said that it is a fairly mature industry. At first, their business model was mainly direct fraud, demanding money from victims for various reasons, and later learned the trick and started scamming. The specific operation method is to find the target group, first use social platforms to cultivate feelings, and after establishing a romantic relationship with the other party, there will generally be three templates. The first is to use relatively naked video chat to find the victim's handle, and then carry out threats and scams, or help to make money for recharge scams, and eliminated impersonating various public officials to commit fraud. According to some fan contributions, the staff in charge of chatting has to add ten customers a day for more than two hours. These people have a base salary every month. There are additional rewards after fraudulently obtaining the amount of wages.
According to some victims, their target groups are generally very vulnerable and particularly prone to trusting others. As long as you say a few nice words and chat with you all the time, they will trust you infinitely. Most victims who have just arrived in Myanmar will resist from the bottom of their hearts when faced with this situation for the first time, but if they do, they will face severe beatings. Moreover, these managers will draw a pie, saying that if they can give a compensation ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, that is, a ransom, and then let you go back. But most of these people are hard-working people, and how many can pay the ransom? Therefore, the only way to get an adequate ransom is to commit scams. Most of the victims are gradually devoured into this bottomless pit by endless desire after the first scam, and receive high bonuses. In this sinful city, as long as there is money, anything can be solved, and people are inevitably consumed by this desire. Moreover, the consumption here is extremely high, even if you get a high bonus, it will be exhausted in a short time. Even if few people can resist the temptation, those who extort enough ransom will end up seeing bigger traps.
Moreover, there are too few such people. For scam companies, all they need to do is give them a beating. This is a path from which there is no turning back. For its part, telecom fraud has driven the development of many industries in northern Myanmar through services such as recruitment, certification, leasing, and taxation. Moreover, this kind of dog push that engages in telecom fraud, after getting a high bonus, will spend money in this place and drive the economy of other industries. In the case of the Wa State, telecom fraud in the Wa State has even become their main source of income. With the development of the internet industry, their business has expanded from social platforms to various short video platforms. While the channel has changed, the business model has not. Then use it to promote the development of the B color industry. So how did the waist gang get up later? After the outbreak of the epidemic at the end of 2019, industries such as B lottery and S plot in northern Myanmar were severely affected.
As pressure from the pockets of warlords gave these scam syndicates, some waist gangs were born. In order to expand the scale, they added acquaintance introductions to the original job postings. When a person is lured to northern Myanmar, the victim's mobile phone and relevant identity documents are confiscated. Once here, it is almost impossible to escape. Most of these industries will be in a park, and local separatist forces will also be equipped with armed guards at the entrance of the company and the entrance of the park. They were smuggled there in the first place, and even if they were shot, no one would know about it. Upon arrival at the park, the scam gang conducts a few days of training and then lets the victims scam them. If he refuses to do so, he will be beaten. If he does not complete the task of passive work, he will also be beaten. If you try to escape or violate company rules, you will be subject to a series of special penalties, not limited to waterboarding, cutting off your fingers, etc. Among them, the water prison is an ancient punishment.
The entire building is underground. It is divided into two floors and is surrounded by solid stone walls. The upper level is the cistern and the lower level is a place for people to stay. There is also a special kind of water prison in northern Myanmar. In order to extract confessions through torture, local armed forces specially invented a method of putting people in cages and then hanging them on the surface of the water, showing only one head. Victims who want convenience and survival can only rely on the dirty water in front of them. This is not obedient, it is resold to the next family, and the next family is even more severe. If that's not enough, send a video of the victim being abused to his family and blackmail him. If he can't contact his family, he will borrow all the money from the online loan, and then cultivate it into a blood slave. Or sell organs to make money. Miraculously, after the operation, someone will resell the complete skeleton price to some developed countries, and even this has become an industry.
The reason why I wrote this content is because I have received many submissions from fans, because fans say that in addition to chip technology, Taiwan's electric frying technology is also world-leading, and even Japan's Yamaguchi Group has specially come to Taiwan. It is understood that the amount involved in the case in 2018 was as high as NT$160 billion. Therefore, he guessed that most of the fraud methods in northern Myanmar, or the tricks of fraud gangs fleeing northern Myanmar, originated here. It is also interesting to note that the United States, Canada, Australia and other places are the sphere of influence of Indian fraud groups. In 2020, the amount involved reached $20 billion. You must know that the entire Indian grain export revenue is only 7 billion US dollars. It is also because Indians speak English and labor is cheap. These two points may explain why northern Myanmar likes to deceive Chinese. What is the problem in northern Myanmar? Is it a liar?
More than 80% of people are scammed, and most of them are forced to scam to save their lives. They do have problems, but the root cause is not here. As we said earlier, we can't tell whether human nature is good or evil, but it is easy for human nature to become bad, so some rules are needed to prevent the evil side of human nature from being released. The problem in northern Myanmar is that there is no such set of rules, but the problem is that Myanmar officials cannot fully accept it. Not being able to create such rules, and even being threatened by local armies, is the most amazing place.