A 19-year-old female college student from Guangdong was abducted and sold to a fraud call center in Myanmar. Her family paid a ransom of 30,000 USDT but she has not been released.

BlockBeats News, April 23rd. According to China Newsweek, a 19-year-old freshman named Xiaoyang (pseudonym) from a university in Guangdong was invited by a friend to participate in the Songkran Festival in Thailand on April 10. After landing in Bangkok, she was immediately detained and sold to a telecom fraud compound in the Sop Moei Ta area on the Myanmar border. On April 13, her family contacted a man who claimed to be a "kind-hearted brother," stating that he had spent 29,000 U (a cryptocurrency stablecoin) to buy Xiaoyang from the snakehead. He claimed that out of Xiaoyang's pleas, he felt "compassionate," and demanded the family to pay 30,000 U (equivalent to over 200,000 RMB) as ransom to release her.

After the family transferred the money as requested, the man repeatedly made excuses such as "roadblocks due to the Songkran Festival" and "no one can leave the compound recently." In the afternoon of April 23, after this incident was exposed by domestic media, according to Xiaoyang's father, "the other party has tentatively agreed to release her but has not provided a specific location," and both parties are still negotiating the handover. Currently, the Baiyun Sub-bureau of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau filed a case for illegal detention on April 15, and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education has also intervened in this matter.