Authorities Raid Major Cambodia Cyberscam Compounds
These scams are powered by human trafficking operations, with trafficked workers transported into new countries with promises of well-paying jobs and forced to work in scam app and call center sweatshops, targeting victims around the world.
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“Cambodian authorities have stepped up raids on compounds alleged to house workers engaging in online fraud, seizing computers, phones and electric shock batons and freeing thousands of involuntary workers,” reports Cezary Podkul for ProPublica. Apple has also removed two popular apps used by cybercriminal groups in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, in a series of moves aimed at disrupting global “pig butchering” scams which use fraudulent platforms to take unwitting deposits and then hold funds hostage with false promises of returning funds after additional deposits or fees.
Propublica reported in a September investigation that these scams are powered by human trafficking operations, with trafficked workers transported into new countries with promises of well-paying jobs and forced to work in scam app and call center sweatshops, targeting victims around the world. Following international pressure, raids in at least three Cambodian cities have freed thousands of workers trapped in these conditions.
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