Taiwanesescam syndicateEven the Prime Minister of Cambodia dares to lie! Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen revealed that he received a hoax text message on his mobile phone. After investigation, he found that the fraudster had sent it from Taiwan.
The Cambodian China Times reported that telegram (paper airplane) scams are becoming more and more rampant, and even Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has received fraudulent text messages (text messages). Hun Sen said at 11:00 pm on the 12th that he had received a fake text message an hour earlier. The group of fraudsters stole the photo of famous Cambodian entrepreneur Duke Xu Kuncheng and opened a fake Telegram account.
“The account sent me a text message in English asking me to send money,” he said. After investigation by Hun Sen, it was discovered that the account was fake, and the scammers used a phone number from Laos, but they were based in Taiwan.
“He (the scammer) must not know that this is the phone number of the (Cambodian) prime minister,” he said.
The report said that as Telegram scams became more and more rampant, Hun Sen reminded the public to be vigilant and not listen to scammers to avoid being scammed.
Cambodia has developed in recent yearsSoutheast AsiaThe concentration and hardest-hit areas of fraud groups, including criminals from China and Taiwan, all went to Cambodia, and many people were forced to engage in fraud and were executed and detained.
The China News Agency reported earlier this year that from June 2022, China’s Supreme Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate,public securityThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant departments jointly deployed the “nail pulling” operation and took stern action to punish the key leaders and backbone of overseas telecommunications and network fraud groups.
According to the report, in recent years, telecom network fraud criminals have set up dens overseas, and several cases of fraud losses of more than 10 million yuan have been established in Cambodia. With the cooperation of Chinese public security and the Cambodian military and police, several cases of fraud syndicates have been solved in the past six months.
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