# OpenAI — Disrupting a Cambodia-based criminal scam operation

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-31
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-criminal-scam-operation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11428-disrupting-a-cambodia-based-criminal-scam-operation
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Models affected: ChatGPT

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. The network also generated content suggesting links to human trafficking and forced criminality. OpenAI banned the coordinated network of accounts and shared threat signals with industry partners and authorities.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-criminal-scam-operation:

> We banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that very likely originated in Cambodia, and was likely operating in or around Poipet, a city in Banteay Meanchey province that public reporting has repeatedly linked to online scam compounds and trafficking operations.

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