Democratic Karen Benevolent Army
The Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) is a Burma/Myanmar-based armed group in Karen State aligned with and supporting Myanmar’s military regime. The group was designated by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for operating cyber scam centers targeting Americans. Reporting in the provided content states that the DKBA controls or secures scam compounds including the Tai Chang compound near the Myanmar–Thailand border/Myawaddy area, and that Tai Chang is one of several scam centers run by the group. The content also states that DKBA-linked scam operations have been associated with Chinese organized crime and use forced labor and human trafficking victims to conduct pig-butchering and fraudulent cryptocurrency or digital-asset investment schemes. Victims are lured through text messages, social media outreach, and fake investment platforms, shown false returns, and induced to send funds, including cryptocurrency. The content further states that DKBA soldiers have been filmed abusing scam workers, including beatings and torture, and that revenue from scam operations supports the group and other illicit activity. Named leaders in the provided content are commander-in-chief Saw Steel, adjutant general Saw Sein Win, and chief of staff Saw San Aung. Alias: DKBA.
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Previously designated as part of the scam center ecosystem in the region, representing the armed-group layer of the infrastructure supporting scam operations.
Runs scam centers including Tai Chang in Myanmar that conduct pig butchering and investment fraud schemes.
Identified by US officials as controlling the Tai Chang scam compound in Myanmar, which is implicated in large-scale cryptocurrency/investment fraud operations targeting US victims and allegedly leveraging Starlink satellite internet terminals for connectivity.
DKBA is an armed group in Myanmar that supports and profits from cyber scam compounds, collaborating with Chinese organized crime groups. It provides security for scam centers, abuses human trafficking victims forced to work in these centers, and uses the proceeds to fund illicit activities and support Myanmar's military regime.
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