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Cyber-scam industry booms in plain sight in Cambodia

By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times, Published on 29/08/2023

» PHNOM PHEN: Around the world, reports of cyber-scam schemes targeting unsuspecting victims online have proliferated rapidly. Southeast Asia has become a centre of gravity for those criminal syndicates, often in remote and war-torn corners. But in Cambodia, the scam industry has been flourishing well within the reach of officials.