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      <title>Scam Centers in Cambodia: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The job postings promise high salaries in customer service or tech support. They circulate on social media, dating apps, and professional networking sites across Southeast Asia, Africa, and beyond. For tens of thousands of people who accepted these offers, the reality waiting behind the guarded gates of Cambodian compounds was something very different: forced labor in a sprawling cybercrime industry that generates as much as $19 billion annually -- a figure approaching 60% of Cambodia's entire gross domestic product.]]></description>
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      <title>Scam Centers in Cambodia: A Kingdom of Compounds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The numbers are staggering in their scale. According to a 2024 United Nations report, between 100,000 and 150,000 people -- many of them foreign nationals lured by fraudulent job advertisements -- are believed to have been trafficked into Cambodian scam compounds. Amnesty Interna...]]></description>
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      <title>Scam Centers in Cambodia: From Casino Floor to Crime Factory</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The transformation happened fast. Cambodia's 2019 ban on online gambling gutted the revenue streams of criminal networks that had operated through the country's casino industry for years. Then the COVID-19 pandemic collapsed tourism, particularly the flow of Chinese visitors that...]]></description>
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      <title>Scam Centers in Cambodia: The Anatomy of a Scam</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The operations run a grim variety of fraud. Among the most common is what investigators call "pig butchering" -- a scheme in which scammers build fake romantic or professional relationships with targets over weeks or months before steering them toward fraudulent cryptocurrency in...]]></description>
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      <title>Scam Centers in Cambodia: Crackdowns and Their Limits</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Raids have occurred, arrests have been made, and promises have been issued. In 2024, operations in Bavet led to 450 arrests connected to online gambling and scam activities. Cambodia has made over 1,000 arrests in broader crackdowns on cybercrime. Southeast Asian leaders have ple...]]></description>
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      <title>Scam Centers in Cambodia: Human Cost at Scale</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What makes Cambodia's scam-compound crisis distinct is its industrial character. This is not petty fraud run from back rooms. It is a system of forced labor operating at the scale of a national industry, generating revenue that rivals Cambodia's legitimate economy. The trafficked...]]></description>
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