Cambodia expels phone fraud suspects
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POLICE in Cambodia have deported to China 17 telephone fraud suspects, among hundreds of alleged scam crooks caught and expelled in recent years.
The 17 were flown out from an airport in Sihanoukville in south Cambodia yesterday, said immigration investigation chief, General Ouk Haiseila. Another 14 suspects are due to leave this weekend from Siem Reap in the northwest, he said.
The two groups were being repatriated on commercial flights to different Chinese provinces for prosecution, he said.
The gang would target rich people and civil servants in China, contact women over social media, trick them into exchanging nude or sexy photos then extort money by threatening to circulate the pictures online, he said.
They also used phone calls made over the Internet for their activities, he said.
When the authorities in Thailand announced the arrests of 44 people this week — 19 from China’s mainland and 25 from Taiwan — suspected of running a scam, they said the perpetrators made calls over the Internet in which they claimed to be bank officials and accused their targets of financial crimes.
The targets would then be put in touch with a fake police officer — also at the gang’s headquarters — and be told they could escape arrest by transferring the allegedly stolen money to a bank account belonging to the scammers.
Last September, Cambodia deported 63 suspects to China over an alleged Internet scam. Kenya and Malaysia have also deported Internet scam suspects to China.
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