Recently, four Chinese victims were abducted by a human trafficking gang near the Moi River on the Myanmar-Thailand border and forced into a pickup truck to be transported to Myanmar. The four people jumped out of the car on the way and called for help. After hearing the noise, the surrounding residents came to help, and the four people were able to escape smoothly and were sent to the police station. The driver involved has abandoned the car and fled, and the Thai police are investigating.
How to save yourself safely after being defrauded into Myanmar?
"Make sure you survive first"
Liu Jie (pseudonym) has been in contact with a thousand people engaging in telecom fraud in Myanmar since 2019. As a network security engineer, Liu Jie has been engaged in anti-fraud propaganda work for many years, helping people stranded in Myanmar how to return to China safely.
Liu Jie believes that the parties concerned should observe the surrounding environment immediately, determine their specific location in Myanmar, and send their personal information and all their experiences to the Chinese embassy in the local area, the national anti-fraud APP, and domestic police stations that can be contacted, etc. As a family member, you should call the police as soon as possible and actively cooperate to clarify what happened.
"Report the crime to China on your own or ask your parents to report the crime to the police station. The report must be successful. This is a layer of protection for yourself. Ensuring your own life is the most important thing." Liu Jie said.
On March 24, 2023, Li Wei (pseudonym), who jumped from a building in northern Myanmar and fled back to China, also believed in an interview with a reporter from Dahe Daily and Yu Video: "Don't blindly trust anyone, make sure you survive first. This is the most important point."
"You have to find a way to get your cell phone and repeatedly confirm your exact location. Only with a cell phone can you ask for help from the outside world." Li Wei said that in the industrial park where he was previously controlled, the person in charge would give him a cell phone about once a week. This was an opportunity. Li Wei did not want to engage in fraudulent activities, so he stayed there for three days. On the fourth day, he was asked to "work". Unwilling to be brainwashed, he began to plan to escape.
On December 29, 2022, Li Wei used a bed sheet to make a survival rope and slid down from the 7th floor. He fell from the 5th floor and was seriously injured and fell into a coma. Li Wei considers this risky behavior to be a failed escape, and he does not recommend following it. However, after being seriously injured and taken to the hospital, he had a new chance to escape from the hospital.
In the early morning of January 19, 2023, Li Wei took advantage of the two security guards guarding him to sleep soundly, and escaped from the hospital on crutches. After changing cars several times in the mountainous area on the China-Myanmar border, he was transferred to Qingshui River Port to return home.
"It is not recommended to run away blindly"
Li Wei does not recommend blindly escaping. It is easy to get lost in a foreign country. There are too many local militants. If you are caught, your life will be in danger. Asking the family to pay money to redeem the person is still the safest way.
Liu Jie also believes that escaping from a fraud group is a dangerous act. Many people do not have the ability to investigate, and you don’t know if there are suspicious people around you who are following you. "The fraud group is mainly seeking money, not life."
Liu Jie said that after escaping from the fraudulent industrial park, you must seek help from the public security department in the border city of Yunnan and report to the embassy. In addition, you must ask Chinese bosses who run companies in Myanmar to find out some basic information, such as which port is closest to the port, the policy of the port, how to take a bus, exchange a certain amount of cash, and purchase data cards, power banks, etc.
(Yangcheng Evening News·Yangcheng School compiled from Red Star News and Dahe News)
