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Burmese people with no oil drilling experience. She advertised the leases on social media to her 600,000 followers, promising them high returns. Thang sold one or more drilling leases to Burmese immigrants at prices ranging from one-and-a-half to 13 times what she initially paid. In the instances reviewed by
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