BANGKOK (AFP) – Cambodia yesterday said it deported 119 Thais across the two countries’ shared border, the latest handover in a regional crackdown on illegal cyberscam centres.
Cambodia’s immigration department said in a post on its Facebook page that the Thais – 61 men and 58 women – had “snuck in to work and stayed illegally” in the kingdom.
They were among 230 foreigners detained during raids on alleged cyberscam centres in the border city of Poipet on February 22 and 23, it said.
The Thais were deported via Poipet border checkpoint yesterday, it added.
Cyberscam centres – which lure foreigners in to work in scam hothouses swindling people with online romance and crypto investment cons – have proliferated across Southeast Asia in recent years.
