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The Rise of Scam Centers in Cambodia
Cambodians aren't actually legally allowed to gamble, so most casinos get set up along border areas or in areas designed primarily for Chinese tourism. A lot of it just became sort of like a way of laundering money and then attracted all these other kinds of vice as well. Some of these scam compounds are enormous skyscrapers that look like huge apartment blocks. And you can have several thousand people in there and we can kind of spot them because the barbed wire, the clothes hanging on the balconies.