{"id":83260,"date":"2026-01-08T20:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83260"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:49:24","slug":"inside-asias-scam-sweatshops-and-why-they-are-so-hard-to-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/inside-asias-scam-sweatshops-and-why-they-are-so-hard-to-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Asia\u2019s scam sweatshops \u2013 and why they are so hard to shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1TNJb2.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo\/Thanaphon Wuttison, File) (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cambodia has made a rare strike against a multi-billion dollar global scam industry with the arrest and extradition of a powerful tycoon accused of running a vast online network. U.S. and U.K.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/inside-asia-s-scam-sweatshops-and-why-they-are-so-hard-to-shut-down\/ar-AA1TNVoU?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6960171e81254282b24d77ae678702ff&amp;ei=52\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Cambodia has made a rare strike against a multi-billion dollar global scam industry with the arrest and extradition of a powerful tycoon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/scam-centres.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83261,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83260\/revisions\/83261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}