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Trump is saying it out loud: Cambodian leaders are in on the scams
Key takeaways
- These serve as the engine room for a global criminal industry estimated to be worth between $50 and $75 billion.
- These are not factories, but digital compounds across Cambodia, where an estimated 100,000 victims of debt bondage are forced to execute pig butchering and cryptocurrency scams under the aegis of local protection.
- This scam-industrial complex now generates revenue equivalent to nearly half of Cambodia s legitimate GDP.
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These serve as the engine room for a global criminal industry estimated to be worth between $50 and $75 billion. It cost U.S. citizens more than $20 billion in the last year alone.
These are not factories, but digital compounds across Cambodia, where an estimated 100,000 victims of debt bondage are forced to execute pig butchering and cryptocurrency scams under the aegis of local protection.
This scam-industrial complex now generates revenue equivalent to nearly half of Cambodia s legitimate GDP. It is run by human trafficking victims, lured by fraudulent job ads and sold between compounds for prices ranging between $5,000 and $10,000.
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