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Phone scammers raided in Cambodia, Thais arrested

Thais found working for a phone scam gang based in Preah Sihanouk, Cambodia, during joint Thai-Cambodian police raids on two locations on Sunday. (Photo supplied)

Sixty-one people, 59 Thais and two Chinese, were detained during raids on a phone scam gang working out of Preah Sihanouk in Cambodia, according to Thai police.

Twenty-eight were beng treated as suspects, five had been lured into the operation and rescued and the remainder were still being investigated, Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, director of the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT), said on Thursday.

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