All the Chinamen and Chinawomen leaving.
Notwithstanding what Bosco said, it does seem odd that nearly a half of those arrested and deported were working for one single casino. Were they running the telephone fraud while at work at the casino? It's a bit suspicious.
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LOL, the famous British art of understatement.scobienz wrote:Notwithstanding what Bosco said, it does seem odd that nearly a half of those arrested and deported were working for one single casino. Were they running the telephone fraud while at work at the casino? It's a bit suspicious.
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Could not telephone fraud be a euphemism for online gaming over the internet from a Chinese standpoint?scobienz wrote:Notwithstanding what Bosco said, it does seem odd that nearly a half of those arrested and deported were working for one single casino. Were they running the telephone fraud while at work at the casino? It's a bit suspicious.
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Right, that's what the news said. The people who were involved with the casino operators say the Chinese believed that these arrests were just the beginning of further round-ups. Cambodian police couldn't find anything illegal in the casino operations so they just used phone scams as a pretext. Sounds logical to me. Most of the deported worked in one casino which made it real easy for the police to corral them all at once. It is also remarkable that this came from the Interior Ministry which ordered the raid carried out. Consequently, they all took a hike. Phone scam? I don't know. But regardless, they are gone now.Bosco wrote: These arrests had nothing to do with online gaming though. They are related to phone scams not online gaming. Read the news articles. If this was a target of online gaming there would have been far more rounded up and it would have been done quietly as it is not illegal in Cambodian terms.
I do however share the same view as you that the actual online gaming itself, with which this story is not related, could also be shut down with a single call from the embassy to HE.
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So is this what's happening? China is cracking down on online gambling that targets their people. So a bunch of Chinese gambling operators come to free and easy Sihanoukville Cambodia to set up off-shore online gambling operations aimed at China that would be illegal if in China. China calls its good friend the Cambodian government and asks them for help putting an end to it. The Cambodian government, which has never been much bothered by the details of the law, agrees to help and sends the cops to Sihanoukville who find reason to bust at least some of them. The other Chinese there understand what's really going on, that it's not just about phone scams and work permits, and so beat a hasty retreat before they get scooped up too.
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Fixed missing Britishness quotient...vladimir wrote:LOL, the famous British art of understatement.scobienz wrote:Notwithstanding what Bosco said, it does seem odd that nearly a half of those arrested and deported were working for one single casino. Were they running the telephone fraud while at work at the casino? It's a tad suspicious.
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If China is as good at hacking as the U.S. says, couldn't they have just shut the whole thing down with a few clicks of a keyboard in China, without having to call in a favor? Could have probably swindled all the money too.
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Sounds like whats going on, or pretty close.LTO wrote:So is this what's happening? China is cracking down on online gambling that targets their people. So a bunch of Chinese gambling operators come to free and easy Sihanoukville Cambodia to set up off-shore online gambling operations aimed at China that would be illegal if in China. China calls its good friend the Cambodian government and asks them for help putting an end to it. The Cambodian government, which has never been much bothered by the details of the law, agrees to help and sends the cops to Sihanoukville who find reason to bust at least some of them. The other Chinese there understand what's really going on, that it's not just about phone scams and work permits, and so beat a hasty retreat before they get scooped up too.
Another part of the equation could be money laundering. The phone scams were probably targeting schmucks, but rich mainland Chinese might be happy to launder some illgotten gains thru the online casinos for 50c in the dollar.
Anyway, it all blew up sooner than I thought it would. The police action from China stopped it, whereas I'm sure the Snooky authorities were happy with it and their payoffs.
The online gambling seems to alive and growing in Koh Kong at the moment.
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