Thailand’s crackdown this round is truly intense: assets worth $730 million have been seized, and a scam case has directly cut it by 70% (seven-tenths). Southeast Asia’s online scam hubs should be worried.

According to Bangkok Post, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul stated that over the past nine months, Thai police have arrested 29,233 suspected scammers and about 70 leaders of scam gangs, seized assets and cash worth approximately 24 billion Thai Baht (about $730 million), and taken legal action against around 1,450 nominee companies. Police data shows that compared to October last year, the number of reported scam cases this month has decreased by 69.2%, and scam losses have decreased by 87.3%. Thai authorities also repatriated 2,647 illegal immigrants found during clearance operations in areas such as KK Park in Myanmar, and identified about 60 suspected scam sites located in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.