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The Asian border fraud complex uses fake talent recruitment to lure foreigners into engaging in illegal online fraud and human trafficking.
In pursuit of her dream, 26-year-old Belarusian female model Vera Kravtsova mistakenly believed in an online recruitment advertisement and went to Thailand for an interview. However, she was abducted to a fraud park on the border of Myanmar and became a slave. She was forced to engage in love fraud. She was eventually killed and her organs were suspected to be harvested and sold, which caused international shock.
Vera once participated in a talent show and is a singer and model. She originally hoped to develop a modeling career in Thailand's high-end fashion industry. She signed up online for an interview in Bangkok, but was abducted to an illegal fraud center on the Myanmar border in the name of filming. Vera was forced to hand over her passport and mobile phone, lost her personal freedom, and was unable to contact the outside world. She was required to "maintain physical attractiveness, serve superiors, and deceive rich people in exchange for money." If she did not meet the standards, she would be beaten, sexually exploited, and threatened with organ harvesting.
According to follow-up reports, Vera was taken to a fraud park in northern Myanmar or the Thailand-Myanmar border, and was forced to engage in "love fraud", establishing a relationship with a foreign man through a dating platform, and then tricking him into investing in cryptocurrency or participating in a gambling website. There are rumors that Vera was later sold to an organ trafficking group, and her organs were harvested before she was killed and her body was cremated. Her family even received a blackmail message demanding a payment of US$500,000 (approximately NT$16 million) in order to receive her body or ashes. After her family refused to pay, they were told that her body had been cremated.

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