In recent years, Cambodia has become a concentration of fraudulent groups in Southeast Asia. Criminals from China and Taiwan have all gone to Cambodia. Many people in the country have been tricked into Cambodia and forced to work for fraudulent groups, and even become “pigs” for human trafficking. Fraud groups mostly target people outside of Cambodia to defraud people. Recently, there has been a case of defrauding Cambodia from Taiwan. The target is Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. He said that he received a fraudulent text message on the 12th. After investigation, he found that the number was from Laos. number, but the place of calling is in Taiwan.

Hun Sen revealed in a Facebook Po post that he received a fraudulent text message from Telegram on the evening of the 12th. The other party stole the avatar of the well-known Cambodian entrepreneur Xu Kuncheng and opened a fake account on Telegram. Hun Sen also said: “He (the scammer) may not know that this phone number is the phone number of the (Cambodian) Prime Minister.” And remind the public to be vigilant and not to be easily deceived by fraudulent text messages.

Cambodian “Cambodia China Times” quoted Hun Sen as saying: “The account sent a text message in English, asking me to transfer money to him.” He immediately ordered an investigation and confirmed that the account was fake. The other party used a number in Laos, but was in Taiwan. In August last year, a fraudulent group falsely used Hun Sen’s identity to open an account. Hun Sen has announced this phone number and account to the public, warning the public not to be fooled.

The Chinese media China News Service reported earlier this year that since June 2022, China’s Supreme Law, Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Ministry of Public Security and other relevant departments have jointly deployed a “nail pulling” operation to severely crack down on and punish major leaders of overseas telecommunications and network fraud groups and backbone. In recent years, telecommunications and network fraud criminals have set up dens abroad, and the fraud dens in many cases of being defrauded and losing more than 10 million yuan are located in Cambodia.With the cooperation of the Chinese public security and the Cambodian military and police, many cases of fraudulent syndicates have been cracked in the past six months