“Company P alone has thousands of groups on Telegram that are used to facilitate transactions and provide a channel for the circulation of information.”
Cambodian laundering firms give scam operators 30 minutes to get a victim’s money into a matched account, or the order has to be placed again. Most of the Telegram groups are public. Company P runs a gateway across more than 20 countries and also owns a bank with a legal banking licence. The scam economy has a trading floor, published rules and a regulator’s stamp.