A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people world-wide being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them said the un-precedented number is straining the resources of Thailand and leading to delays.

Eighty-four Indonesians have returned home after being freed from scam centers in Myanmar. Part of a wider crackdown involving Thailand, Myanmar, and China, thousands have been rescued. Repatriation efforts for over 360 Indonesians continue as authorities work to combat global scams exploiting vulnerable workers.

Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds in Myanmar during a crackdown on centres run by criminal gangs have little food, scant healthcare and filthy toilets in the remote militia camp they have been taken to,

Thailand said Friday it had agreed with Myanmar and China to repatriate thousands of alleged scam center workers stranded in camps at the Thai-Myanmar border, part of a crackdown on transnational crime.

Eighty-four Indonesians freed rom scam centers in Myanmar arrived at the Thai border city of Mae Sot earlier on Thursday, part of an ongoing large scale repatriation effort following a crackdown by Thailand,

Thousands of Indonesians have been enticed abroad for better-paying jobs, only to end up in the hands of transnational scam operators.