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Understanding Cambodia’s Scam Economy, with Jacob Sims

The scam economy is an industrialized system that merges cyber fraud with human trafficking and money laundering, all thriving under political protection.

Today on The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Katie Putz is joined by Jacob Sims, a columnist for The Diplomat, a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Center, and a leading expert on transnational crime and human rights in Southeast Asia. Sims is the author of a series of essays for The Diplomat focused on the cyberscam economy in Cambodia, which landed The........

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