By David Hutt @ Asia Times, Aug. 22

Free-flowing tourism, lax law enforcement and improved internet connectivity have opened the region to a myriad of Chinese criminal outfits

More than 200 Chinese nationals were arrested in Cambodia last month after local police raided a compound near the Thai border where an alleged cybercrime gang was operating an online blackmail and extortion ring [....]

In July, Cambodia also deported 74 Chinese nationals over similar Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) scams. The same month, 153 Chinese nationals were arrested in Indonesia, also accused of running an online fraud ring that targeted wealthy Chinese businessmen and politicians. They reportedly made US$450 million in a year [.....]

 

In Thailand, 44 people from China and Taiwan were arrested last month for operating a similar scamming operation, which reportedly conned US$3 million from their mostly Chinese victims. Chinese telecom scammers have also recently been arrested in Fiji and as far from home as Kenya [....]