A 19-year-old female college student from Guangdong was trafficked to a telecom fraud industrial park in northern Myanmar; her family is being demanded a ransom of 30,000 USDT.

According to Foresight News , citing China News Weekly, a 19-year-old freshman girl named Xiaoyang (pseudonym) from a university in Guangdong Province was invited by a friend to participate in the Songkran Festival in Thailand on April 10. Upon arrival in Bangkok, she was immediately detained and sold to a telecom fraud ring in the Three Pagodas area near the Myanmar border. On April 13, her family contacted a man claiming to be a "kind older brother." He claimed to have bought Xiaoyang from a human trafficker for 29,000 USDT (cryptocurrency), and said he had taken pity on her after her pleas. He demanded a ransom of 30,000 USDT (approximately 200,000 RMB) from the family to release her. After the family transferred the money as requested, the other party repeatedly made excuses such as "road closures during the Water Festival and the park's recent entry-only policy." On the afternoon of April 23, after the incident was exposed by domestic media, the father stated that "the other party has tentatively agreed to release the person, but has been delaying providing a specific location," and both sides are still negotiating the release. Currently, the Baiyun Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau has opened an investigation into the case of illegal detention on April 15, and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education has also intervened.