India, Nov. 5 -- India's specialised cyber-crime centre was able to geo-locate a scam compound in Cambodia using open source operation, leading to the rescue of 81 Indian nationals trafficked by the criminals operating the scam, according to a new report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

The report, released on Thursday, highlights the steps being taken by the financial watchdog to combat illicit financial flows linked with scam compounds, many of them located in Southeast Asian countries. FATF said the "industrial-scale scam compound model" has rapidly expanded from around 2020, resulting in annual losses estimated in the tens of billions of US dollars.

In one case involving Indian nationals trafficked to a scam compound in Ba...