A few days ago, a 19-year-old girl from Shandong went missing after going to Thailand to shoot a short drama, sparking widespread concern on the internet.
She was not filming, but acting. Acting for her mother to see, and for us to see.
She repeatedly contacted her mother asking for money, and her tone began to sound strange: "Don't ask where I am, I can't tell." After that, she completely disappeared. The police initially speculated that she might have been lured to a scam park in northern Myanmar and fallen into the hands of a telecom fraud gang.
Does this script sound familiar?
Yes, this scene is very similar to the "Wang Xing incident" that shook public opinion a few months ago.
The guise of "short drama shooting" has once again deceived a young person.
Wang Xing had claimed to go to Thailand for a short video project, but ended up being transferred to a park in northern Myanmar, where he was detained and beaten, almost unable to return. That incident had once caused great concern, and it seemed that the truth was beginning to be revealed and the telecom fraud underbelly would be thoroughly cleaned up.
However, half a year has passed, and everything is as before.
This time, it's a 19-year-old girl from Shandong; next time, who will it be?
She is not "naive and sweet," she just trusted the so-called "overseas opportunities" too much. She thought going abroad to shoot a short drama was the beginning of a new life, not knowing that the end of this "counterattack journey" was a scam office in Myawaddy or Shan State in Myanmar, with no windows.
From China to Thailand, then secretly transferred to northern Myanmar, this route has already become a "standard procedure." Many people think "Myanmar is too far, it's impossible to be deceived there," but you just need to look at the map: Thailand borders Myanmar, and it only takes a few hours to transfer from Chiang Mai or Bangkok.
Have a drink in Bangkok, wake up in Myawaddy as a "telemarketer"? It sounds like a joke, but it's reality.
The parks today are no longer the "iron cages + handcuffs" primitive methods. They have put on the guise of short drama production, cross-border e-commerce, and AI live streaming, recruiting openly on major platforms under the name of "entrepreneurial projects." "Content creation," "script shooting," "paid overseas trips," sound like opportunities, but traps have already been set.
"Free board and lodging," "monthly salary of 30,000," "Chinese-speaking environment," "sign the contract upon arrival" — stop deceiving yourself, this is not a company, it's a criminal organization; you are not an employee, you are their "resource" for sale.
What really has been cleared by the "Clean Park Operation"?
After the Wang Xing incident, northern Myanmar once started a "strict crackdown," with frequent arrests, repatriations, and executions making the hot search, and media coverage was overwhelming, as if the telecom fraud system was thus dismantled.
But what about reality?
The area where Wang Xing was rescued now has another person missing. The lively "cleanup" was just a change of stage settings, the actors and directors never left the stage. The telecom fraud groups have already adapted to the environment, continuously upgrading.
The parks have changed their signs, registered as "content incubation companies"; when visa checks are strict, they organize "tourism intern camps"; they even collaborate with corrupt officials to help people handle "legal procedures," still abducting people across borders.
This is a "never-ending script" scam. You block one entrance, they change the path. As long as the gray areas of this land exist, the telecom fraud industry will continuously regenerate.
"100,000 Chinese being deceived" is not an exaggeration
You think falling into the park is just a few people being "too foolish"? Not really.
According to industry estimates, at least 100,000 Chinese are trapped in the telecom fraud systems in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and other places. Most are not coerced by violence, but deceived by "high salaries + entrepreneurial dreams."
They thought they were going to "shoot dramas" or "live stream to sell goods," but ended up losing their passports.
While you are still hesitating, the scam groups have already prepared the corresponding scripts: "Come to Southeast Asia to shoot short dramas, zero internal competition," "Become an AI internet celebrity, earn over ten thousand," "Travel and earn money, why not?"
Only when your passport is taken away and your phone is controlled do you realize, this is not flying out of the country, but falling into an abyss.
Your dream is their source of goods; your predicament is their income.
This is not about "not seeing reality," but a systematic deception mechanism precisely targeting those "desperate to change their fate."
Wang Xing could return home because of public opinion, the embassy, and national netizens. But many more victims like the Shandong girl, even their names are not left behind, can only silently disappear.
This is not a reminder, but reality.
The Chinese embassies in Thailand and Myanmar have repeatedly issued warnings: do not easily believe in "high-paying jobs" or "all-inclusive arrangements"; do not mistake a "tourist visa" for a "work permit"; do not believe in the beautiful dreams of "shooting short dramas" or "overseas training," these are likely telecom fraud traps.
Today, those who want to harm you no longer kidnap violently, but wear suits, talk about dreams, and give contracts. They are not targeting your weaknesses, but your desires.
