Cambodia hosts the United States, Interpol and Asian powers to coordinate action against online scams

Cambodia has become a meeting point for law enforcement agencies, governments, financial institutions and tech companies discussing one of Southeast Asia’s most persistent problems: online scams run through transnational criminal structures. The thing is, this is no longer being treated as a local police matter; the agenda is about cross-border coordination, which matters directly for PSPs, acquiring banks and anyone exposed to high-risk merchant flows.

1. The International Conference on Combating Online Scams is being held at the Sofitel Phnom Penh on 23 and 24 September, according to The Phnom Penh Post. The event’s slogan is: “Act together to break the chain and eradicate online scams.”
2. Participants include representatives from the FBI and Interpol, as well as government and police officials from China and other Asian countries. The local report also says the attendee list includes law enforcement agencies, international organizations, financial institutions, technology companies and other stakeholders in the digital ecosystem.
3. The stated purpose of the conference is twofold: to deepen shared knowledge of how online scam networks evolve, and to build operational alliances that let multiple actors respond together instead of each country or institution acting in isolation.
4. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet sent a message to delegates calling online scams a transnational challenge that no country can solve alone. He said knowledge-sharing and stronger partnerships are the way to “break the chain of online scams” and protect citizens.
5. The conference lands as Cambodia pushes the eradication of scam compounds as a national policy priority. The article says the spread of these operations across different parts of the country has drawn concern from foreign governments and international bodies, especially because a relevant share of the structures had links to companies holding valid casino licenses.

The government figures cited in the report underline the scale of the response: for the period from July 2025 to June 2026, authorities inspected 195 casinos. For high-risk operators, that is the useful part of the story: when scam enforcement starts touching licensed casino infrastructure, payment flows, merchant onboarding and partner-bank exposure tend to get pulled into the same conversation.