Plea From Foreigner Claiming Detention & Abuse In ‘Online Work’ Scam
CNE has just received the following disturbing message from a foreigner who claims to be being held with others against their will and tortured at an online fraud site on…
Thais Caught Returning After ‘Online Casino’ Work Scam
Thailand: Five Thai nationals were detained by Thai Border Patrol No. 12 in cooperation with border guards near the Thai-Cambodian border while crossing the border. The arrests took place at…
SHV Governor Warns Casino Owners Over Illegal Worker Scams
Sihanoukville: Mr. Kouch Chamroeun, Governor of Preah Sihanouk Province, issued a press release on taking administrative and legal action against hotel and casino building owners involved, whether indirectly or directly…
‘Killing Pigs’ Online Fraud Recruiter Sentenced In China
China: A court in Chongqing’s Yubei District opened a court to hear a criminal case of telecommunications network fraud. One man involved with a Cambodian cross-border “killing pigs” group, but…
Modern Slavery- Chinese Net Scammers & Foreign Victims
PHNOM PENH, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Foreign workers and tourists stranded in Cambodia during the COVID-19 pandemic have been trafficked and forced to work in sophisticated Chinese-run online…
Cyber Slavery: Inside Cambodia’s Online Scam Gangs
For several years CNE has been reporting these so called ‘Spinach Farms‘, kidnappings, murders and other related crimes linked to online gambling, telecoms fraud , drug dealing and human trafficking…
Nigerian And Khmer Arrested For Online Fraud
Phnom Penh: On April 30, 2020, the Cyber Crime police in Stung Meanchey 3 police detained two suspects on charges of internet fraud. Nin Srey Pov, 33, a Cambodian woman…
UPDATE: Chinese Net Scammers Set For Deportation
UPDATE: Despite earlier reports, only 34 Chinese nationals (6 women) made the deportation grade. The event seems, so far, to be have been kept fairly low-key in the local press…
‘Killing Pigs’ Inside Chinese Online Gambling Part 2
The second installment of life as an illegal online gambling scammer translated from Phoenix Weekly. Yang Fuchun gave up working as a spinach dog after half a month. “I can’t…
Spinach Dog Confessions; Gambling Worker Tales
*Part One of a double part story written about a Chinese illegal Chinese online casino worker, who left his home in Northwestern China to try his luck in Sihanoukville. Read…
Chinese Scammers Arrested in Toul Kork Condo Raid
Phnom Penh: At 9 am on September 10, 2019 a raid on a condo located at # 17, Street 112, Sangkat Phsar Depot 3, Toul Kork saw 144 Chinese nationals…
The Lure of Online Gambling to China’s Indebted Young
*Another piece from Chinese blogger ‘Hardcore Reporter’. This time they look at the attractions, and dangers of earning high salaries in the shady world of the illegal online gambling industry…
China’s “Hardcore Reporter” Online Casino Investigation
*The following is translated from a blog by a writer known as “Hardcore Reporter” For the past six months, I have been active in the south of the country. I…
What is a ‘VoIP Scam’?
Telephone fraud has been around a long time. The phone offers anonymity between shyster and mark, a separation which makes lies easier to tell and simpler to swallow. Ever…
Chinese & Bangladeshis Charged With Poipet Kidnap & Extortion
Banteay Meanchey Province: Poipet City Police confirmed the arrest of 4 foreigners for abducting and illegally detaining 8 people. Police sent them to court on the afternoon of October 24, 2021…
Chinese Man’s Cambodian Nightmare After Answering Job Ad
Xiao Li (a pseudonym) did not expect that an answering a recruitment advert online would turn out to be the darkest and longest months of his life. A few days…
