Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation

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Jun 12, 202539:13News & Politics

A few weeks after Ben Yeo travelled to Cambodia for what he thought was a job in a casino, he found himself locked up in a padded room. “It’s a combination between a prison and a madhouse,” he remembers. He was being pun...

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