CAMBODIA: On-the-ground reporting has played a vital role in exposing regional cyberscam operations, Danielle K-O shares firsthand experience of challenges reporters face for People's Map of Global China. globalchinapulse.net/scam-stories-h…

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How does the cyber-scam industry launder its proceeds? In this essay, Chen Yanyu sheds light on the work of some key actors, showing how they occupy a liminal space between legality and illegality and between national and transnational financial systems. globalchinapulse.net/moving-bricks-…

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Phd student Yanyu Chen interviewed Cambodian money launderers who help move money for pig butchering scams "Like another similar enterprise I had previously visited, their premises was in a dozen hotel rooms above a casino in Sihanoukville that were rented monthly. The managers

While much has been written about the awful conditions inside Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, what is often overlooked is how the ordeal faced by the people trapped inside seldom ends once they get out. For many, this is only the beginning, writes Ling Li.globalchinapulse.net/lost-in-salvat…

CAMBODIA: Fascinating piece by Chen Yanyu on how the cyber-scam industry launders proceeds, for People's Map of Global China globalchinapulse.net/moving-bricks-…

SE ASIA: Ling Li for People's Map of Global China on the challenges faced by those who escape the region's online scam compounds. globalchinapulse.net/lost-in-salvat…

Lost in Salvation: How the Current Victim Identification Systems Fail Survivors of the Online Scam Industry in Southeast Asia Via People's Map of Global China english.cambodiadaily.com/news/lost-in-s…

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