Gary Warner’s article highlights the efforts of the Yiyuan County Police in Shandong Province, who have been successful in tracking down and arresting key members of a fraud syndicate operating out of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The task force has been able to seize large amounts of money and assets from the criminals, and has also led to the arrest of key leaders of the gang. One relevant reference in the article is @CyberScamWatch as well as @johnwSEAP. The people working in such operations are often not there voluntarily: the UN human rights office estimated in August that at least 120,000 people in Myanmar and another 100,000 in Cambodia may be held and forced to run online scams. Beijing is pressing from the other side of the border too, as China’s Ministry of Public Security said in November that Myanmar had handed over more than 31,000 telecom fraud suspects, 63 of them financiers and ringleaders.
