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Phone scammers raided in Cambodia, Thais arrested

Thais found working for a phone scam gang based in Preah Sihanouk,Cambodia, during joint Thai-Cambodian police raids on two locations on March 20. (Photo supplied)

Sixty-one people were detained during raids on a phone scam gang working out of Preah Sihanouk province in Cambodia, two Chinese and 59 Thais, according to Thai police.

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

Teams of Thai and Cambodian police raided two premises used as offices by the gang in  Preah Sihanouk province on March 20, said Pol Gen Damrongsak, who is a deputy national police chief.

The first was an abandoned factory on Santepheap Road….

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