This report builds on the findings and analysis of Amnesty International’s June 2025 report, “I was someone else’s property”: Slavery, Human Trafficking and Torture in Cambodia’s Scamming Compounds. It:
- Updates the evidence, identifying additional scamming compounds and suspicious locations
- Further documents human rights abuses and violations that have come to light since the original publication
- Provides an assessment of the Cambodian government’s crackdown on scamming compounds, launched in July 2025 and lasting until the end of April 2026.
This report presents the latest evidence on the state of the scamming industry in Cambodia from a human rights perspective and assesses the effectiveness of state actions on both the industry and its victims.
It explores transparency, accountability, due process, victim protection and state responsibility, assessing whether the measures taken by the Cambodian government constitute genuine attempts at countering the scamming industry or merely replicate past patterns of selective enforcement and human rights violations.
This report covers the time period from the beginning of the crackdown in July 2025 up until the end of April 2026. The government has extended the crackdown beyond this time period and continues to take action, but actions beyond April 2026 were not part of this research.
Read “Falling Through the Cracks: Cambodia’s “Crackdown” on Scamming Compounds and the Victims It Has Failed.”