Nigerian Scam Gang Busted in Phnom Penh

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Nigerian Scam Gang Busted in Phnom Penh

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Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): The police arrested 4 Nigerian men and 1 Cambodian woman for scamming and money laundering in Phnom Penh. The raid led by lieutenant Neth Savoeun, the police chief and Lieutenant Dy Vichea, the director of the national security department, and Lieutenant Sean Sen, the director of the cybercrime department.
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On September 16, 2020, the report said that on September 15, 2020 the specialist police received information of a fraud operation and abnormal money transfer from the USA to the banks in Cambodia. The relevant officer investigated and cracked down a group of scammer and money laundering on September 11-13, 2020. Five suspects (4 Nigerian men and 1 Cambodian woman) were arrested for case preparation for submitting to the court following the legal procedure.
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The suspects convinced Cambodian people to open an bank account for them to use for money transfers and they paid them some money. The court issue the detention order for the 5 supsects on September 17, 2020.
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I tried, i really did try, to give weight to the words of the esteemed president of the Nigeria Cambodia Friendship and Co-operation Society (or similar) when he expressed, with a sigh of sad regret, that most Nigerians in Cambodia were not heroin dealers, pimps and con artists at all - the vast majority were in fact fine upstanding business people, part-time amateur philanthropists or highly skilled football players just sharing the joy.

18 months later he got 20 on the bottom.
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Surely that's all just a misunderstanding and they are as pure as the driven snow.
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Alex wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:02 pm Surely that's all just a misunderstanding and they are as pure as the driven snow.

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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:47 pm I tried, i really did try, to give weight to the words of the esteemed president of the Nigeria Cambodia Friendship and Co-operation Society (or similar) when he expressed, with a sigh of sad regret, that most Nigerians in Cambodia were not heroin dealers, pimps and con artists at all - the vast majority were in fact fine upstanding business people, part-time amateur philanthropists or highly skilled football players just sharing the joy.

18 months later he got 20 on the bottom.
I remember that guy, he managed to put Nigerian-Cambodian relations back for at least a few years or decades. Wasn't he also a church minister?
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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^^ I don't remember the church minister bit JB, but
con man > heroin dealer > dodgy preacher
yeah, i can see it.
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Alex wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:02 pm Surely that's all just a misunderstanding and they are as pure as the driven snow.
Exactly Al-X, as pure as chauffeur driving Andean snow between Bogota and Amsterdam via a brief stop in a Phnom Pehn borey garage.
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:47 pm I tried, i really did try, to give weight to the words of the esteemed president of the Nigeria Cambodia Friendship and Co-operation Society (or similar) when he expressed, with a sigh of sad regret, that most Nigerians in Cambodia were not heroin dealers, pimps and con artists at all - the vast majority were in fact fine upstanding business people, part-time amateur philanthropists or highly skilled football players just sharing the joy.

18 months later he got 20 on the bottom.
Oh yeah. I think his exact counterpart in Thailand got done for the same 1-2 years earlier or later. Talk about going all in with your chips. They were boom or bust types of dudes, apparently.
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Who keeps lettin these people in? I mean cmon seriously...
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Barangjoymrai wrote:Who keeps lettin these people in? I mean cmon seriously...
These are professional scammers. They know all about screening attempts to weed out their kind. And how to lie like driven snow. Only the good (clueless) Nigerians get denied entrance.

Anyways, that’s my thinking.
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