A multi-billion-dollar online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family is allegedly being used to sell equipment to and launder money for the online scam industry — with Australians among those in the crosshairs.
Cambodia is a major hotspot for South-East Asia’s online scam epidemic, with industrial-scale operations being run by Chinese criminal syndicates out of fortified multi-level office buildings, often using forced labour lured from as far afield as South Asia and Africa.
The scams include everything from “pig butchering” romance/finance scams, to sextortion, impersonation of family members and authorities, task scams, fake investment schemes and more.
