Cybersecurity & Digital Resilience
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Summary
A Harvard report identifies Cambodia as a global centre of online scam crime, with over 150,000 people held in forced labour.
The estimated revenue reaches 650 billion baht — close to 60% of the country’s GDP.
The heaviest finding is that the report describes state complicity, naming over twenty-five figures and networks involved.
Key points
60% of GDP changes what kind of problem this is
At that scale it is not crime inside an economy. It is the economy.
Forced labour is the core of it
A hundred and fifty thousand people are not there voluntarily, which makes this trafficking before anything else.
State complicity is what makes it intractable
If those who should enforce the law are benefiting, internal pressure has nowhere to act.
The border makes it Thailand’s problem too
The networks reach directly to the Thai frontier, so this is not only a neighbour’s affair.