A Change of Guard

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Friday 4 July 2014

Cambodian police arrest 80 Chinese nationals for online phone scams

PHNOM PENHJuly 3- Cambodian police on Thursday raided three locations andarrested 80 Chinese nationalswho were involved in online telephone scamssaid LtGen.Chhay Sinarithchief of the Interior Ministry's internal security department.
"We launched an operation simultaneously on Thursday afternoon and arrested a total of80 Chinese nationalsincluding 23 females in Phnom Penh CityTakeo Province and SiemReap Province," he told Xinhua.
He said the suspects are from the Chinese mainland and China's Taiwan.
"They are accused of using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocola type of internet phoneservicefrom Cambodia to threaten and extort money from victims in China," he said.
A number of telephonescomputers and other electronic materials were seizedhe said.
Telephone fraud has become a social security problem in ChinaSuspects often useoverseas servers to make scam calls frommaking it more difficult for the Chinese police totrace them.
Perpetrators usually phone their victims in Chinaclaiming to be court or police officials,noting that the victimsbank accounts had been breached so that they have to transfer themoney to a separate safe account.
(Editor:Du Mingming、Bianji)

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