Ben Lee, managing partner at IGamiX Management and Consulting, estimates up to 80 per cent of gaming revenue in Sihanoukville now comes from online gambling targeting mainland Chinese.
“Once they got hooked, [online syndicates] would then perpetrate all sorts of scams, including in some cases downright fraud and manipulation of the gaming results.”
These scams, known as “killing pigs”, involve teams that work out of makeshift call centres and online chat rooms to target potential victims in China.
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'‘Killing pigs' means you raise the pig and then kill it,” says real estate broker Wang Zhilang.
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Scammers pose as young women to entice men into online relationships, gradually luring them to gaming sites.
“They will tempt you to start with winning a small amount of money. Once you increase your investment, they will hack into your account and you can't withdraw the money you've won,” Wang says.
Vast numbers of young Chinese recruited to perpetrate these scams often become victims themselves, according to Wang.
“When they arrive, their passports are confiscated and they are kept here for six months before they can leave,” he says.
As the syndicates have grown more audacious, Beijing is taking action.
In August, Chinese police flew to Cambodia to extradite 150 Chinese nationals who were allegedly part of online extortion rings.