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As many as 46 suspects were prosecuted this fiscal year for allegedly deceiving 112 people into working illegally overseas, the Thai Ministry of Labour said on February 13.

The Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs have warned about scams targeting people who want to work in technical occupations in the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky recently described Vietnam as the safest country in Southeast Asia against the threat of financial attacks targeting banks, payment systems and online stores.

Thai cabinet has approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to be signed between the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia on cooperation in the suppression of cyber-related scams, according to Thai government deputy spokeswoman Traisulee Traisoranakul.

Online scams have been climbing steadily in recent years as more people are taken in by "easy money" tricks.

Vietnamese exporters are at risk of losing hundreds of millions of USD in a suspected scam in which they have not received any payment as agreed for 100 containers of cashew nuts already dispatched to a buyer in Italy.

The number of reported job scams during the COVID-19 pandemic has skyrocketed in Singapore, warned the police.

Cashless payments continued to grow fast in the first nine months of 2021 to top 36.28 quadrillion VND (1.6 billion USD), according to a recent report by the Government.

Online scams have become more and more common in recent years, causing a great deal of anxiety in society.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has made public for comments draft amendments to Decree No 40/2018/ND-CP about managing multi-level marketing business.

Vietnam has organised 55 flights bringing 13,323 citizens home from overseas since April 10 in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said on July 16.

Thailand is struggling to tackle a rise in online recruitment scams, with many appearing on Facebook, a senior official said on May 19.

The Ministry of Public Security has issued a warning over a new type of scam where apparent official bank messages are sent to customers to appropriate money.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) has warned local consumers to be cautious about taking out online loans amid rampant scams.

Malaysian police have arrested thousands of loan sharks and cracked down on financial scammers since 2010, said an official.

Domestic banks have recently been warning their customers about new online scams.

Cambodia will no longer issue licences to online gambling businesses or renew existing licences when they are expired, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a directive on August 18.

The Thai Digital Economy and Society Ministry is planning to set up a centre to combat online scams.

The Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) and leading institutions in the country have banded together to develop cyper security personnel for the Thailand 4.0 digital era.

Cambodian authorities have arrested nearly 400 Chinese nationals in August on suspicion of operating a telecoms scam to defraud victims in China, Cambodian police said on August 17.