Thai media claims 60 Chinese nationals were found

At 3:20 p.m. on January 8, the actress Wang Xing's girlfriend posted a Weibo update saying, "This morning, I and Xing met at an official agency in Bangkok, Thailand, and, accompanied by embassy staff and law firms, learned the latest about the situation and subsequent arrangements from the police," accompanied by a photo of her holding hands with Xing.

According to a Thai newspaper, on January 7 at 7:30 p.m., Police General Tatchai Pittayarakaruboon, head of the National Police Headquarters' Technology and Cyber Crime Suppression Division, said that the Chinese actor Wang Xing had now been taken to the Immigration Police Training Center to enter the process of screening victims. He will then be transferred to the Chinese embassy in Thailand and his family so that he can return to China as soon as possible. Wang Xing will not need to undergo further questioning or record-taking procedures that day, since his identity has been confirmed.

On the police's official plane, Wang Xing described the process of him going missing. After crossing the river, he didn't know that he had gone into Myanmar until he was forced into a car by armed men, then he realized that he was in another country. He said that there were at least 50 people in his building, and people from many countries in another building. His hair was shaved by the scammer, and everyone there had to have their hair shaved. Wang Xing said to the Thai Police that day that the scam gang used the title of the major Thai entertainment agency to cheat him to the airport.

Wang said that he went to Thailand to shoot in a third country with Thailand as an intermediary, but he was deceived into entering Myanmar due to being cheated.

After entering Myanmar, Wang Xing was forced to receive scamming training for 2 to 3 days. According to Wang Xing's account, it was mainly text scamming training, and he had not been trained in scamming calls or telephone conversations. He said that he was very afraid. If he was rescued, he would have to make a living by scamming his Chinese compatriots. Fortunately, Wang Xing was not physically harmed. Regarding the alleged red spot on his left calf, which was widely speculated, the police have confirmed that it is a birthmark.

It was reported that when rescuing Wang Xing, it was very dangerous. In order to avoid conflict with Myanmar scam gangs, the enforcement department chose to work closely with some local people in Myanmar. Under the middle mediation and communication of Myanmar local people, Wang was finally brought out successfully and escorted to Thailand. It is understood that the rescue team had located two detention sites at the time, and found 10 Chinese citizens and 50 Chinese citizens. Wang Xing was rescued at the second site.

Some netizens said that the Myanmar scamming park received a ransom of 2 million yuan before it handed over Wang Xing to the Thai police. A volunteer who helped the Chinese families to rescue several Chinese citizens from the Myanmar scamming park told the Red Star News that according to his knowledge, Wangxing was trapped in a small-scale scamming company in Myanmar. Under the pressure of public opinion from all sides in recent years, the heads of the company had discussed it and let him go voluntarily. The news about 2 million yuan ransom was not true.

The Chinese male actor Wangxing, who is rumored to have been kidnapped to Myanmar, has now been rescued and safely delivered to Bangkok. At the same time, the police successfully crushed the involved "Apollo Glory" company, and its boss, nicknamed "Golden Tiger" and called "Yu Zong," was caught.

Wang's experience may be only one case among many. Wang Xing's experience is just a variant of the "high-paying scam" in Myanmar's scamming park, targeting ordinary actors, streamers, etc. These scams take advantage of these people's relatively simple minds and their desire to find work quickly to scam them. In fact, in January 2024,actor Xu Bochun was fooled by a scam gang posing as a "production team" and lured to Myanmar with the promise of high salaries. He was then locked up in a so-called "scamming park" for over a hundred days.

In the afternoon of January 7, the Actors Committee of the China Radio, Film and Television Social Organizations Federation released a notice, warning of scamming traps and calling on actors and their agencies to be vigilant.

The Actors Committee of China Radio, Film, and Television Broadcasters' Association issued a notice

On January 6, the reporter contacted the Thai Wenhua Law Firm at the scene, and the lawyer of the law firm told the reporter that this is a relatively common scamming套路. "It is not clear how the production crew recruited this actor, but if you want to shoot video and film in Thailand, you need the relevant certificates. And if it is recruited by GMM, you also need to verify with GMM. As for recruiting actors in general, it is necessary to report to the immigration office."

The lawyer said that Wangxing is a well-known actor in China and has a large fan base. If he wants to participate in the shooting in Myanmar, he will definitely find the relevant information through the Internet, such as shooting time, filming schedule, and the relevant shooting crew, as well as the filming permit to enter Myanmar. "Usually, if we find that the positioning of a person is close to Mae Sot, Tak Province, we have to report to the police at that time."

Last December, the Thai Wenhua Law Firm released a video on its Weibo account, showing the process of the firm accompanying a Chinese victim, who had been lured to Bangkok under the pretense of acting, to file a report with the police at 12 am on December 8 and the police's response. The video described how the actor was abducted to Mae Sot and, at dawn, would have been taken to Myanmar by scam gang. The actor reported to the police around 12 o'clock at night in Bangkok, and the police took him to a hotel near the station. At dawn, he was taken to the Mae Sot airport and sent back to Bangkok by the police. By 6 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th, it was confirmed that the actor had returned to Bangkok.