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SE Asian cybercriminals adopt drug-cartel tactics
A police raid on a Philippines online organization highlights not only the ongoing digital crime boom in Southeast Asia but also the increasingly blurred line between cybercrime and ordinary gangsters. Police raided the premises of the Tarlac Pogo firm following a complaint filed by a Vietnamese worker who bore signs of having been recently tortured in the form of electrocution scars. The police discovered 875 people, including 504 foreigners, who had been lured to work for what purported to be an online gaming company, but was actually a forced labour camp operating romance scams.