[Wingman4l7]

Long overdue. At some point, these scam operations are so large that they have to be operating with tacit approval of their host countries, who have been given no incentive to stop the virtual cold war against the personal finances of foreign citizenry that is bringing in millions of dollars into their economy.

[PaywallBuster]

Direct link to the indictment https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/chairman-prince-group-i...

Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

This one of the other organizations / major bank used for money laundering directly linked to Hun Sen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huione_Group

> The company is linked to Cambodia's ruling Hun family, which includes the current prime minister, Hun Manet.[4] His cousin Hun To is a major shareholder and director of Huione Pay

[yhager]

> Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

Are you saying that 30-50% of Cambodia's economy can be directly attributed to scamming and casinos? I find that shocking and hard to believe. Do you have a source for that statement?

[senordevnyc]

Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

This is ridiculously false.

[rags2riches]

This makes me think of the Barbary Wars where piracy out of the Barbary states was a huge issue. There's also the connection with the slave trade then and the human trafficking for the scam centers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars

[jowea]

Also North Korea with its state sponsored internet privateering.

[khuey]

Makes me imagine a buddy cop comedy but it's the US and China teaming up to deal with the scammers in Burma.

[JumpCrisscross]

> the virtual cold war against the personal finances of foreign citizenry

Comparing a scam to war is inaccurate. The Cold War was a war running cold with the potential to go hot. Cambodia and America are not going to war over this.

[bobthepanda]

Interestingly enough, China is thought to have leaned on the scales in Myanmar’s civil conflict due to pig-butchering there. (Not only were they scamming Chinese, they were also human trafficking them to operate the scams.)

[JKCalhoun]

> The Cold War was a war running cold with the potential to go hot

I'm not sure I buy that definition. I think most understand a Cold War to be simply a "war" done without weapons but by other means — via economic means, propaganda, etc.

[xnx]

The US is blowing up alleged drug boats and their crews so anything is possible.

[greenchair]

that's a pretty naive view of war. we are at war with many countries all the time, most of it is cold.