J. Daniel Sims
@jdanielsims
Dad, author, Fellow @HarvardAsia. Term Member @CFR_org. Columnist @Diplomat_APAC. Here for hot-takes on #orgcrime #rights #security #protection and #scambodia.
Strong @GI_TOC study out today. Offers a nice regional primer on how scam centers work and why they are able to operate with ongoing impunity. This work was underpinned by the contract work of loads of terrific reporters and civil society actors (named and unnamed). Props, all.
📢 @GI_TOC’s new report, Compound Crime, launched today. The report, supported by the RSO, provides new insights and context on cyber-scam centre operations, supporting discussions around new avenues for responding to trafficking for forced criminality into cyber-scam centres…
Tremendous reporting by @CobytHobbs @Diplomat_APAC on the deportation of Taiwanese trafficking victims to the mainland...and on China's response to Cambodia's scam industry which has decidedly "NOT resulted in accountability for [CPP-linked] kingpins." thediplomat.com/2025/05/suspec…
So much #Cambodia gov't spin, trying to deflect the highly damning, well researched findings by @jdanielsims about gov't & ruling CPP complicity in the massive cyberscam center operations that operate with impunity in that country! Hey @Dr_Hunmanet_PM @hunsencambodia - time to…
Wondering if Ken Gamble has registered with #Australia’s Foreign Interference Public Register...This @abcnews interview sounds a lot like the perspective of a paid CPP lobbyist. abc.net.au/listen/program…
Strong and courageous reporting from inside #Cambodia as the state-party appears to be following an old playbook to deflect international attention from its cash cow criminal industry.
Excellent article about the current "crack-down" on scam centers in #Cambodia, with analysis from @jdanielsims @NathanPSouthern @licadho & others. Well worth reading. kiripost.com/stories/mass-a…
Could this time could be different? Could a genuine effort to dismantle the scam economy finally be underway in @Dr_Hunmanet_PM's #Cambodia? I really don't think so. Here's why in my latest @Diplomat_APAC column. thediplomat.com/2025/07/reform…
This is spot on. #Thai authorities understand the Hun clan’s center of gravity and are acting accordingly. The US does not.
The Cambodian People's Party is a globally harmful criminal enterprise wrapped in a flag. It is time to abandon the illusion that it can be swayed by treating it like a normal trading or diplomatic partner. My latest @Diplomat_APAC. thediplomat.com/2025/07/moving…
The Cambodian People's Party is a globally harmful criminal enterprise wrapped in a flag. It is time to abandon the illusion that it can be swayed by treating it like a normal trading or diplomatic partner. My latest @Diplomat_APAC. thediplomat.com/2025/07/moving…
How many times can the regime establish a "high level task force to combat scams" and it still have rhetorical impact? This is at least the third one in the last year -- first two accomplished nothing. Time for bilateral partners to stop falling for it. cambojanews.com/phnom-penh-set…
Terrific news out of #Thailand today. Kok An, a close business partner to @hunsencambodia @Dr_Hunmanet_PM, is one of the worst offenders in #Cambodia’s massive state-abetted scam economy. High time for other countries to follow suit. bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…
With data & insights from @GI_TOC @UNODC @jdanielsims et al
2/2 taken root in Southeast Asia, particularly in grey zone borderlands and states characterized by poverty, conflict and corruption. My latest for @GlobalAsiaEAF globalasia.org/v20no2/feature…
Delighted to see my analysis appear in this terrific @WIRED exposé. “There's no real legal culpability that tech companies have for what happens on their platform…until that changes, I just don't know what incentive they have to be proactive“ said Sims. wired.com/story/telegram…
This is not a leak in the traditional sense but more just @hunsencambodia doing everything possible to project legitimacy. Effectively, #Thailand is going after #Cambodia's scam industry and now the big guy has to step in to show he's still got leverage. bbc.com/news/articles/…
Nice to see Thailand calling a spade a spade again re: #Cambodia's state-driven scam industry. "Thailand to disconnect electricity and internet services presently provided to Cambodian areas where there are casinos and scam centres." bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…
Speaking to @asiasentinel about cyber-scam centers in Cambodia: "The real takeaway from this no-holds-barred report by Jake Sims is the neck deep complicity of Cambodia's ruling elite with the cyber-scam centers, which have now spread to every province in the country. Longtime…
"regrettably, based solely on the author's imagination and hallucinations..." @MOICambodia. if I had a nickel for every time i got called a lunatic just for exposing a bit of state crime with hard evidence...
The Ministry of Interior denied the scam report
.@hwatkins in @SCMPNews "Written by security specialist Jacob Sims @jdanielsims, new report says #Cambodia becoming centre of exploding global scam economy driven primarily by Chinese organised crime" Scale of illegal activities threatens global stability sc.mp/mmc4f?utm_sour…
Nice to see my study get some air-time in @thetimes today. "The findings support those of UN investigators who recently said scam centres continue to grow and spread 'like a cancer'—despite public promises to crack down on them by southeast Asian govts." thetimes.com/world/asia/art…
Of all the state actors using sovereignty to shield their acts of predation and outright crime, #Cambodia ranks near the worst. Statements like this feign legitimacy. They should fool no one. Ouk Mao is being repressed for his reporting on CPP illegal timber trade, full stop.
MoI statement on the arrest of Ouk Mao:
In which Prince Group continues their noble crusade against source protection and all things @jackoozell while kindly promoting my recent study. still awaiting word from @ChenZhiCambodia re: the bodies that keep piling up in front of his scam compounds. princeholdinggroup.com/2025/05/19/hol…