Dozens of people queued up outside the Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh after they were freed by cyberscam netwoerks

Dozens of people queued up outside the Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh after they were freed by cyberscam netwoerks

 STR

More than 1,400 Indonesians have left cyberscam networks in Cambodia in the last five days, Jakarta said on Wednesday, after Phnom Penh pledged a fresh crackdown on the illicit trade.

Scammers working from hubs across Southeast Asia, some willingly and others trafficked, lure internet users globally into fake romances and cryptocurrency investments, netting tens of billions of dollars each year.

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