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61 call scammers nabbed in Cambodian swoops

A joint Thai-Cambodian police operation raided two Preah Sihanouk locations in Cambodia on Sunday where Thais were working for a phone scam gang. Police photo

Sixty-one people — 59 Thais and two Chinese — have been detained during raids on a phone scam gang working in Preah Sihanouk province in Cambodia, say Thai police.

Twenty-eight were being treated as suspects, five were lured into the operation but had since been rescued, and the rest were still being investigated, Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, director of the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT), said yesterday.

Teams of Thai and Cambodian police raided two premises used as offices by the gang in Preah Sihanouk on Sunday, said Pol Gen Damrongsak, a deputy national police…

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