Expat Chinese around the world have become the target of different kinds of telecommunications fraud by Chinese scammers in Cambodia in recent years. Insiders and a number of fugitives who were once controlled by these fraud rings, have recently revealed details as to where these scammers are located and how they operate.
Luo Ding (pseudonym to protect his identity) is one of the fugitives. According to a Feb. 17 report by China’s Southern Weekly, one of Luo’s “fellow countrymen” urged him in late December of last year to take a job as a chef in Cambodia. He told Luo that the basic salary would be 10,000 yuan ($1,580) a month plus a commission if business was good. Luo, who wasn’t doing well financially at the time, liked the terms and accepted the job.
