Police investigators in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, The Maldives, Thailand and Macau seized more than 32,000 bank accounts holding some USD20 million and other assets and more than 1,800 suspects were arrested.

The scale of the fraud, which involved people working in fraud factories is epic and demonstrates an enormous network of fraudsters showing that online and telephone frauds really are a very organised crime with business structures and premises being created for the sole purpose of committing crime.