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As Phnom Penh cracks down on cyber-fraud operations, Chinese criminal syndicates are hastily seeking out more accommodating jurisdictions.
Vietnamese police guard suspects arrested during a raid on an alleged transnational online scam operation in Phu Tho province, Vietnam, in June 2026.
Vietnamese authorities have in recent days disrupted two groups attempting to set up online scamming operations in the north of the country, in what they suggested was a possible sign of overflow from the anti-scam crackdowns next door in Cambodia.
Police in Lao Cai province said yesterday that provincial investigators had recently raided a local hotel where a scam gang was attempting to establish a cyberfraud operation, the state media outlet Tuoi Tre reported.
