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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

More evidence of #scam centre response cooperation intensifying & importantly bringing in key impacted countries beyond #SoutheastAsia - as a global challenge this will require globally coordinated solutions. Great to see increasing process in that direction www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/p...

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Thailand, S. Korea can work together on cybercrime, economy: Thai PM

Thai PM aims for $30b trade with Seoul, hopes for early conclusion of CEPA talks

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🛠 Piloting frontline tools like the Screening and Referral Toolkit in airports. 🤝 Expanding secondments and peer-to-peer exchanges. 🛜 Creating platforms like the Regional Information, Liaison and Outreach Network (RILON) Initiative to support whole-of-route action.

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Challenges in addressing irregular migration, people smuggling and human trafficking challenges are growing in scale and complexity. With challenges, come opportunities to enhance regional cooperation and innovation.

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Join #OSCE & @baliprocessrso.bsky.social for a webinar series (22–24 Sept) on risks & responses related to #AI and #TraffickingInPersons: 🔹 22 Sept (Civil society & academia): buff.ly/DJCwsge 🔹 23 Sept (Private sector): buff.ly/Pwsu7a3 🔹 24 Sept (Gov’ts & policy makers): reach out for link

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

New RSO supported report on illicit #financial flows + cyber-#scam centres now online! Have thoughts on improving responses? It'd be great to connect with practitioners, policymakers & private sector partners working on this. Please get in touch if you have ideas or would like to discuss further!

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🚨 NEW RESEARCH Cyber-scam centres in Southeast Asia generate billions annually — targeting victims worldwide and exploiting trafficked workers. Many have evolved into transnational networks linking fraud, trafficking, money laundering, and illegal gambling. 📖 tinyurl.com/y4rnzmx2

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Yesterday's Policy Hackathon w/ @Meta & ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking 🇦🇺 provided a unique platform to discuss cyber-scam centre response directly with Thai 🇹🇭 youth, having their insights inform prevention efforts & strategies for flagging suspicious job posts on #SocialMedia

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Cyber Scam Monitor @cyberscammonitor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

PAKISTAN: Authorities arrest 149, incl. 48 Chinese, 8 Nigerian, 6 Bangladeshi, 4 Filipino, 2 Sri Lankan, 2 Myanmar, 1 Zimbabwean, in raid on factory in Faisalabad. Report indicates they ran investment scams and also engaged in hacking & other cybercrimes. www.dawn.com/news/1922894...

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149 arrested for online fraud in raid on factory in Faisalabad

The premises is allegedly owned by Fesco BoD ex-head; 48 Chinese nationals among the suspects.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

After a recent court order, OpenAI is now required to retain the very data many of its users believed to be most private. This introduces serious privacy risks, especially for vulnerable users like victims and survivors of domestic violence, Belle Torek writes.

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For Survivors Using Chatbots, ‘Delete’ Doesn’t Always Mean Deleted | TechPolicy.Press

Many survivors may assume that AI platforms and chatbots offer common privacy protections, but these are not guaranteed, Belle Torek writes.

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How do cyber-scam centres actually operate — and why are they proving so difficult to address? This new report from #GITOC offers one of the clearest pictures to date, detailing how these operations are structured, sustained, and expanding across the region🧵 📘: globalinitiative.net/analysis/com...

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Compound crime: Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia

Cyber scam operations have surged across Southeast Asia since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, evolving into a transnational organized crime crisis of staggering proportions. In this report, we exp...

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Compound crime: Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

An op-ed by RSO Co-Managers Fuad Adriansyah (Indonesia) and David Scott (Australia) published in the @Diplomat_APAC today discusses the devastating human cost of legal invisibility for individuals, and champions the momentum for change in #SoutheastAsia. Read the full op-ed here: buff.ly/RYr2LjX

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

📢 One week left to apply! The RSO is recruiting for a new Programme Manager (International Migration Strategies) to lead the establishment of a senior policy group on irregular migration in the Andaman Sea. ⏰ Apply before 8 June: buff.ly/DvKPsG0

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

💡In order to develop information campaigns & public messaging to prevent individuals from undertaking dangerous #irregular journeys, it is crucial to understand how persons at risk of #irregular migration & their origin communities perceive (irregular) migration, & their #informationneeds

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

✈️ Last week, the RSO participated in the #BudapestProcess Working Group meeting on Returns & Reintegration, in Istanbul, Turkiye—as part of a long-standing relationship between the RSO & the Budapest Process, & recognising overlapping memberships & challenges for the Budapest and Bali Processes

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

How can understanding the drivers and consequences of irregular migration help strengthen investigations into serious crime? RSO presented to law enforcement officers at the IMOSC XVIII Programme, drawing on the findings of an assessment on Community Perceptions and Information Needs.

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Come work with our Transnational Crime and Technology Programme! Exciting role will work w/ myself, social media platforms & law enforcement to develop a toolkit focused on electronic evidence sharing, improving content moderation & supporting collaboration in trafficking investigations.

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

📢 New job alert! The RSO is recruiting for a new Online Platforms Toolkit & Research Consultant, who will map & analyse content moderation policies & provide insights on good practices for content moderation to reduce transnational organised crime online. 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/yc55cscx

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you’re not familiar, skilled North Korean developers have been finding freelance work at, and infiltrating, Western companies for years using false personas They send their wages back to Pyongyang to help fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons and sanctions evasion. There are thousands of IT workers

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Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea

For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The RSO is recruiting for a new Programme Manager (Information Sharing & Regional Responses). The Consultant will lead on engagement to support establishment of 2 cross-border networks, supporting regional cooperation on maritime people smuggling. ⏰ Apply before 22 May 🔗 More info: buff.ly/TMGw757

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Call for applications now online for new PM position at the RSO. Come join the team! 🤝

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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 04/05/2025

Cambodia is the likely global epicenter of cyber-scam operations in 2025. And this isn’t simply a story of a hapless state where criminal entrepreneurs have exploited “governance gaps.” Ruling party elite patronage networks are deeply enmeshed with the scam industry. buff.ly/KSXI7z5

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🤝 The RSO met with Ruwanthi Delpitiya, Acting Director General of East Asia & International Security Cooperation Division at Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

With trafficking for forced criminality & cyber-scam centres increasingly impacting #SouthAsia 🌏 it’s important that responses are coordinated cross-regionally and that lessons learned Southeast Asia are shared to other Bali Process Members

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

While in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the RSO met with Controller General of Department of Immigration and Emigration in Sri Lanka, & colleagues including former secondees to the RSO. Discussions highlighted strong partnership between Sri Lanka & RSO, & trends related to trafficking for forced criminality

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🚨 Last call for applications! Tomorrow is the final day to apply for the Programme Manager for Countering Trafficking in Persons position with the RSO in Bangkok, Thailand. Don’t miss your chance to join our team! 🔗 Apply here: thailand.iom.int/sites/g/file...

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢 New job alert! The RSO is on the lookout for its new Programme Manager, Countering Trafficking in Persons. ⏰ Apply before 30 April 2025, Bangkok time 🔗 More info and how to apply: bit.ly/4cxAjAK

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Happy Songkran from the RSO! We wish everyone a joyous Songkran and a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year.

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

An OSINT workshop recently held by the RSO in Bangkok equipped law enforcement from across Southeast Asia with open-source intelligence (OSINT) skills to detect, investigate, & disrupt cyber-scam centre recruitment networks & investigations into a range of related crimes. More: buff.ly/RHfFHqo

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RSO hosts technical regional workshop on countering trafficking into cyber-scam centres - The Regional Support Office of the Bali Process

RSO 2023 Constructive Dialogue brought together some 120 senior officials and representatives across 28 Bali Process Member States and Organisations, 11 Observer States and Organisations and 13…

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

RSO's @winchry.bsky.social met w/ Luong Le, Director of the ATIP Dept. at Blue Dragon to learn about their work supporting local collaboration between law enforcement & CSOs, good practices in #TIP data collection & victim services offered by @bluedragonchildren.bsky.social in #Vietnam

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🧵Sri Lanka continues efforts to counter trafficking of citizens to scam centres in Southeast Asia via its National Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, Embassies & Consulates. RSO met w/ Amb.Wijayanthi Edirisinghe, discussing release of 14 Sri Lankans from Myanmar & RSO's OSINT workshop in Colombo 🤝

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Day 3: Focus on fraudulent job ads—how traffickers recruit for cyber-scam centers. Officers learning advanced search, "dorking" & multilingual OSINT across social media platforms 🔍 Great to see participants sharing platform-specific techniques and popular job sites from their countries.

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Day 2 and already seeing participants discuss using #OSINT techniques with active cases they're working on 🔍 Good to see practical exercises generating discussion and the regional connections being formed. Excited to see where we get to by Friday! 💻

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The RSO's technical workshop on countering trafficking into cyber-scam centres is underway in Bangkok. Officers from across ASEAN have gathered to enhance investigative capabilities through open source intelligence (#OSINT) techniques 🕵️‍♀️

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The RSO participated in Thailand's Second Modern Slavery Conference, which brought together government interlocuters, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector, highlighting efforts to counter forced labour, and to protect its citizens from situations of exploitation.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

NEW: Elon Musk’s Starlink is being used at scam compounds that have fleeced billions from people around the world, a @WIRED investigation shows Between November 2024 and Feb, hundreds of phones at eight scam compounds in Myanmar logged 40,000 uses of Starlink, mobile data shows

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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online

A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

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WIRED @wired.com · 27/02/2025

NEW: “Elon Musk’s Starlink is installed above all the buildings in the campus where we are now. Now the fraud work is running normally," a human-trafficking victim wrote. A WIRED investigation into reports of criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia using Starlink:

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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online

A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

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Ryan Winch @winchry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Important documentation of how trafficking in persons, violence & coercion remains central to #ScamCentre operations Its essential that those forced to commit criminal acts are ID'd as victims of trafficking & able to access services, particularly supporting their return home & reintegration #TIP

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/02/2025

The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk’s DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.

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The Collapse of USAID Is Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds

The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk's DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.

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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process @baliprocessrso.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Last week the RSO engaged in a series of meaningful discussions with the Embassy of Indonesia and the High Commission of Malaysia to Bangladesh, centred around human trafficking and people smuggling challenges impacting Bangladesh and the broader region. #RegionalCooperation

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Sue-Lin Wong @suelinwong.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

For the past year, I've been investigating the global rise of online scams - a predatory, multi-billion dollar industry that rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. Scam Inc, a new 8-part podcast from The Economist and hosted by me, is out in February: econ.st/3CoAdxJ

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Scam Inc from The Economist: Trailer: Scam Inc

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerf...

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