After foreign pressure forced Cambodia's government to shut down large-scale online scam operations — including the US sanctioning of Prince Holding Group for allegedly running industrial-scale scam compounds — tens of thousands of migrant workers coerced into the compounds are now homeless in Phnom Penh, according to an NPR investigation published 21 June 2026. Amnesty International and other NGOs say most are trafficking victims lured from Uganda, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Indonesia with promises of legitimate work before being forced under strict quotas to run 'pig-butchering' investment fraud; the FBI reports Americans alone lost more than US$20 billion to such schemes last year. Aid consultant Mark Taylor warned that the government has 'only addressed half of this problem' by closing the compounds without rehabilitating the victims now at risk of being re-trafficked.
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