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Vietnam busts group planning large-scale online scam centre

Vehicles are seen along a street in Hanoi, Vietnam. (File photo: Reuters)

HANOI — Vietnamese police have busted a group suspected of trying ​to establish a large-scale online ‌scam centre in the country, authorities said on Friday, as criminal networks spread their operations across Southeast Asia.

Police in Phu Tho province uncovered and disrupted a transnational group linked to online fraud syndicates operating in Cambodia, preventing it ​from setting up ⁠what they described as a major scam hub in Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.

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