The Thai military said it has recovered extensive evidence of transnational online fraud from a Cambodian “scam compound” seized during border clashes last year, including target lists, scam scripts, and equipment used to disguise operations, Reuters said. 

Senior Thai military officials briefed reporters and foreign delegates in Thailand’s Surin province on the O’Smach complex, which they said housed thousands of people, many allegedly victims of human trafficking forced to scam strangers under threat of punishment, Reuters reported.

Soldiers later took reporters through one of several buildings in the complex that Thai forces said they bombed and occupied late last year. Inside the six-story structure were scattered documents that included what appeared to be long lists of potential targets and their contact details, as well as scripts used for scam dialogues, according to the news outlet.

O’Smach has previously been identified as a base for scam operations, including by the United States, which cited trafficking and forced criminality, Reuters said. “The reason we are showing this place today is that we want the world to see how it’s being used as a criminal base against humanity,” Lieutenant General Teeranan Nandhakwang, the director-general of the Royal Thai Army’s Directorate of Intelligence, said in the report. 

Authorities seized 871 SIM cards used to enable anonymous communication, dozens of smartphones, counterfeit police insignia and police uniforms, Reuters said. Several of the rooms onsite appeared to be set up to look like police offices from various countries, including Brazil, China, and Australia. 

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