Law enforcement needs better digital game to stop cyber scammers: Mekong region report

WASHINGTON – If you receive a text from an unknown number asking if you would like to go to dinner, and flag it as a scammer trying to deceive you, it is quite possible that the person sending the text is a victim too.

The conference featured 78 experts and community representatives from across the region and focused on the challenges of non-traditional security threats, particularly cyber-enabled crimes and trafficking in persons, wildlife, narcotics and other illicit goods. “Forced criminality principles – that victims should not be charged for crimes they were forced to commit – are not widely known or applied in these instances even when clearly applicable.

Ms Valentina Casulli of Britain-based Humanity Research Consultancy , which has helped 17 victims escape criminal enterprises, noted that victims are lured to compounds across South-east Asia, commonly in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and the Philippines. They are given mobile phones and forced to make scam calls across the globe.

Victims are also sold to and bought by different organisations, Ms Casulli added, with transactions in untraceable digital currencies.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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