{"id":998254,"date":"2026-03-14T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998254"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:33:52","slug":"cambodia-approves-draft-law-targeting-cyberscammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/14\/cambodia-approves-draft-law-targeting-cyberscammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia approves draft law targeting cyberscammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia&#8217;s government approved a draft law Friday that will hand down harsh sentences against fraudsters running cyberscam operations, a minster told AFP. <\/p>\n<p>Cambodia has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running a multibillion-dollar fraud industry that sees scammers lure internet users globally into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments. <\/p>\n<p>Largely concentrated in Southeast Asia, the global cyberscam industry has reached &#8220;industrial proportions&#8221;, with estimates of its annual revenues as high as $64 billion, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia&#8217;s government approved a draft law Friday that will hand down harsh sentences against fraudsters running cyberscam operations, a minster told AFP. Cambodia has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running a multibillion-dollar fraud industry that sees scammers lure internet users globally into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments. Largely concentrated in Southeast Asia, the global cyberscam industry has reached &#8220;industrial proportions&#8221;, with estimates of its annual revenues as high as $64 billion, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}