On January 5th, Jiajia, the girlfriend of actor Wang Xing, used the social media account “Insomnia Daddy” to post a request for help on social media, stating that her boyfriend Xingxing (Wang Xing) went to Thailand to film and went missing on the Thai-Myanmar border around 12:00 noon on January 3rd, Beijing time. This matter quickly attracted high attention in China. On January 7th, the Tak Police in Thailand confirmed that they had found the missing Wang Xing in Myanmar. That evening, Wang Xing arrived in Bangkok on a government plane arranged by the Thai police, and Wang Xing was confirmed to be rescued. Currently, how Wang Xing arrived in Myanmar from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, and how he entered the telecommunications fraud den in Myanmar, the entire detailed process remains to be further explored by the media.
The Wang Xing incident has raised questions among many Chinese netizens about the safety of travel in Southeast Asian countries. At the same time, some netizens criticized the Chinese government for delaying and making things difficult in the rescue of Wang Xing, saying that “the government only took action after public opinion arose.”
Some netizens also questioned that the Chinese government did not make enough efforts to combat cross-border telecommunications fraud, and that many Chinese citizens have encountered similar scams but have not been rescued. Thailand is just a “transit station”, and the “beginning and end” of the scam are related to China. On January 9th, the Weibo topic “174 stars trapped in Myanmar jointly seek help” topped the trending searches.
On January 8th, writer Xu Kaizhen wrote an article criticizing major platforms for leaking user privacy through real-name registration, criticizing the root cause of the rampant telecommunications fraud from another perspective. Currently, the post has been deleted.
Xu Kaizhen: Where is the source or root of telecommunications fraud? It’s not the gardens in northern Myanmar that we are very afraid of, but domestically, it’s countless large platforms in China, including some so-called managers who have mastered our information when we deposit and withdraw money. If these institutions and people do not sell our personal information, even if northern Myanmar is full of various gardens, they may not be able to defraud us. Of course, some people are lured by acquaintances in the name of earning high salaries and getting rich, but, but, the source of evil is still selling. Thinking about this makes people angry. We have long been stripped bare, and nothing is left, and that’s fine, but there are still people who want to take our information, even if you have a meal, someone will sell the information to others, not to mention you buy a car and pay taxes. Among the people I know, there are three people who were recently defrauded of all the money on a card after buying a car and completing the procedures, and they received a call asking them to go and get a tax refund! You say, how did these scammers know the information so quickly?
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