Tag: scams

THE SCAM SYNDICATE CRISIS Certainly, thousands have been lured to scam centres clustered around Thailand’s borders like barnacles around the hull of a ship.  They are usually hard-up, unemployed youth ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities have rescued 15 victims of suspected cybercrime rackets in Cambodia, its foreign ministry said, as the government steps up efforts to help hundreds of its citizens ...

MANILA: The Philippine senate launched an investigation on Thursday (Sep 8) to identify culprits behind large-scale phishing scams where millions of text messages have been sent to mobile users to ...

TAIPEI: Taiwanese prosecutors on Friday (Sep 2) indicted nine suspects on human trafficking charges for allegedly luring 88 people to Cambodia to toil in online scam syndicates that have become ...

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kongers have been arrested for allegedly setting up job scams in which victims were lured to Southeast Asia and then held against their will, police announced on ...