Asian Scam Centers Finally Draw Fire

Law enforcement starting to wake up to global blight

By: Toh Han Shih

After years when Southeast Asian cyberscam rings festered into an illegal industry that has stolen hundreds of billions of dollars and blighted tens of thousands of lives, the world has begun to crack down, with Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore seizing assets and arresting suspects linked to a Cambodian conglomerate, Prince Holding Group.