{"id":7773,"date":"2026-04-11T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/7773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:10:20","slug":"dw-reporter-inside-cambodias-love-scam-camps-that-catfish-millions-of-users-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/7773\/","title":{"rendered":"DW Reporter: Inside Cambodia&#8217;s love scam camps that catfish millions of users | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"DW Reporter: Inside Cambodia&#039;s love scam camps that catfish millions of users | DW News\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNvPLAbOJT4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDW Reporter: Inside Cambodia&#8217;s love scam camps that catfish millions of users | DW News<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA global scam industry is flourishing in Cambodia. Billions of dollars are lost to scammers, some of whom are victims themselves. A Report by Georg Matthes <\/p>\n<p>Everyone will have encountered scamming before: A message from an unknown person, a little bit suspicious, but also charming and promising.<br \/>\nWhat might seem harmless is actually a billion-dollar business. <\/p>\n<p>In Cambodia, the government is now cracking down on scam centers that basically operate like a mafia and run large-scale scams in huge halls or factories. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the scammers are recruited from abroad, like Indonesia. They claim to have been forced to work there, and that they themselves are victims, with some even claiming to have been tortured. In some cases, however, even the embassies from their native countries are skeptical whether this is true. Instead, they believe that many scammers join the teams voluntarily. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Global scam industry: Cambodia\u2019s billion-dollar fraud scheme<br \/>\n00:49 Rescued from scam centers: Indonesian workers in emergency shelters<br \/>\n02:55 Raids in Cambodia: Authorities shut down scam centers<br \/>\n03:24 Romance and investment scams: How the schemes work<br \/>\n04:17 Initial contact and emotionally manipulating victims<br \/>\n05:21 The billion-dollar scam market: Politics, corruption, and international pressure<br \/>\n06:22 Doubts about the raids: Why the scam business continues<br \/>\n07:45 Victim or perpetrator? Investigations and return to Indonesia<br \/>\n09:31 AI and fake identities: New tools for scammers<br \/>\n10:24 Fear of prosecution: What happens after returning?<br \/>\n10:57 Global networks: Why the scams won\u2019t stop<br \/>\n11:53 Bitter irony: Love as a weapon in online scams <\/p>\n<p>#dwcurrentaffairs #organizedcrime #cambodia <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DW Reporter: Inside Cambodia&#8217;s love scam camps that catfish millions of users | DW News A global scam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[85,84,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-7773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dw-news","8":"tag-dw","9":"tag-dw-news","10":"tag-dw-news-english"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}