{"id":84554,"date":"2026-02-06T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84554"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:02:06","slug":"inside-scam-centres-conning-victims-around-the-world-using-fake-romances-as-ringleaders-are-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/06\/inside-scam-centres-conning-victims-around-the-world-using-fake-romances-as-ringleaders-are-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside scam centres conning victims around the world using fake romances as ringleaders are executed"},"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\/AA1VO99K.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"An abandoned bedroom is seen at a scam centre in O Smach, Cambodia, Monday, February 2, 2026\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a Cambodian compound with rooms designed to look like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/singapore\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Singapore<\/a> and Australia police offices, papers were strewn across desks and floors: the detritus of a fraud factory abandoned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/inside-scam-centres-conning-victims-around-the-world-using-fake-romances-as-ringleaders-are-executed\/ar-AA1VOsEx?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69862b620b9f491a95bbf75057ddb46c&amp;ei=20\">\u00a0Read 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>In a Cambodian compound with rooms designed to look like\u00a0Singapore and Australia police offices, papers were strewn across desks and floors: the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84554","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\/2026\/02\/scam-centre-cambodia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554","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=84554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84556,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554\/revisions\/84556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}