Thailand Says Cambodia Clash Is Also a War on Scammers

Thailand’s army has recast its deadly clash with Cambodia as a battle against scam centers, adding a new motive for bombing runs across the border that it says are aimed at rooting out cybercriminals.

Calling the strikes a “war against the scam army,” a military division involved in the border fight said this week it’s on the frontline against the global threat of transnational crime syndicates, which operate across neighboring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.