A taxi driver, noticing his 64-year-old female passenger was being romantically scammed and instructed to transfer 131 million dong to receive 50,000 USD sent from abroad, drove her to the police to report the incident.

Operating as a clandestine enterprise, a transnational scam group defrauded over 5,000 Vietnamese individuals of more than 15 billion VND within 20 days.

Cambodian police granted reporters access to a scam center, revealing the global victim-trapping scenarios used by criminal networks.