马来西亚警方于7月中旬在Forest City地区展开大规模突袭行动，共在32个场所逮捕335人，其中309人为中国籍，另有19名印尼籍、3名马来西亚籍和4名缅甸籍嫌疑人[1]。这些被捕人员涉嫌组织加密货币投资诈骗和爱情诈骗[1]。警方在行动中查获313台电脑、1557部手机、17台笔记本电脑和10个调制解调器，并缴获约100万林吉特（折合181810英镑或245000美元）的资产[1]。
两个主要诈骗中心分别位于一栋五层楼的27套公寓和5栋平房内[1]。专家指出，此次行动反映了跨国诈骗产业的冰山一角[1]。过去五年间，诈骗产业已演变成规模达数十亿美元的专业化犯罪企业，许多团伙成员来自柬埔寨的诈骗中心[1]。据柬埔寨政府估计，过去几个月内已有30万人离境[1]。
Malaysian authorities conducted coordinated raids across Forest City in mid-July, dismantling what officials described as a major transnational fraud operation [1]. Police arrested 335 people across 32 locations, with the majority identified as Chinese nationals [1]. The detainees comprised 309 Chinese citizens, 19 Indonesians, 3 Malaysians, and 4 Myanmar nationals [1].
The operation uncovered two primary scam centers: one occupying 27 apartments across five floors of a single building, and another distributed across five separate residential structures [1]. Officers seized approximately 1 million Malaysian ringgit (£181,810 or $245,000) in assets [1], along with 313 computers, 1,557 mobile phones, 17 laptops, and 10 modems [1]. Investigators documented that the criminal networks engaged in cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scams, exploiting victims through deceptive schemes [1].
Experts characterized the raids as addressing merely the surface of a far more extensive problem [1]. Over the past five years, the cross-border fraud industry has evolved into a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise, with many operatives reportedly connected to established scam centers in Cambodia [1]. The scale of this illicit activity is underscored by Cambodian government estimates indicating that approximately 300,000 people departed the country within recent months [1].