The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has expressed concern that Asian crime syndicates behind the multibillion-dollar cyberscam industry are expanding globally, including to South America and Africa.
The agency, in a report released on Monday, warns that despite regional crackdowns, the operations are becoming more global, more sophisticated, and harder to contain.
The report describes how transnational criminal networks originally based in countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar have evolved into large-scale operations.