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US ‘leading fight’ against Southeast Asia scam compounds, says FBI official
US ‘leading fight’ against Southeast Asia scam compounds, says FBI official
1 hour agoReuters
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The FBI has partnered with police in several Southeast Asian countries on a joint anti-scam taskforce disrupting scam networks and targeting their financial infrastructure.
Satellite image of KK Park, one of the most notorious scam centres in war-torn Myanmar’s loosely governed border regions, which was busted by authorities. (AFP pic)
BANGKOK: A senior FBI official said on Tuesday that the United States was “committed to leading the fight” against multi-billion dollar Southeast Asian fraud factories targeting Americans.
Scott Schelble, Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, was speaking at a press briefing after travelling to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where he visited several scam centres.
“It is impossible to fully grasp the magnitude of these operations until you see them yourself,” he said, referring to “industrial-scale” Chinese-led fraud factories that have proliferated across the region.
