O'SMACH, Cambodia ¨C In a Cambodian compound with rooms designed to look like police offices in Singapore and Australia, papers were strewn across desks and floors: the detritus of a fraud factory abandoned in haste.
Among the documents were profiles of a 73-year-old Japanese retiree, complete with his phone number and bank account balance, and an American woman who disclosed that she was a victim of domestic abuse. Nearby were scripts to commit love scams and impersonate police, as well as a room set up to resemble a Vietnamese bank office.
This is what reporters found on Monday inside a bombed-out compound near the Thai-Cambodian border, which offers one of the clearest windows yet into ?the industrial-scale fraud that has fleeced billions of dollars from victims globally.
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