The Cambodian government has claimed a milestone in its fight against the scam industry accused of stealing billions of dollars from victims around the world, with officials saying they have eradicated all scam compounds in the country. Chhay Sinarith, the senior minister in charge of combating online scams, told a gathering of foreign diplomats on Thursday that "large-scale scam activities have been brought fully under control, and there are currently no online scam compounds remaining in the country," according to a statement about the minister's meeting released on Friday. However, criminal groups have moved to decentralised, small-scale activities, hiding in guesthouses, condominiums, rental houses, vehicles, and coffee shops, the statement said. Cambodian authorities were continuing to target those operations, it said. Amnesty International's co-regional director Montse Ferrer said the human-rights group was “highly skeptical of suggestions the scamming compound industry has been effectively eliminated” because of the multibillion-dollar industry’s entrenched links in the cou