Legal analysis and countermeasures against transnational telecom fraud under LMC cooperation

Abstract

This article, using the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Platform (LMC) as a platform and grounded in the theory of political, legal, and technical multi-dimensional joint governance, employs case analysis to dissect and analyze the spatial diffusion characteristics of transnational telecommunications fraud crimes in the Lancang-Mekong region, the bottlenecks in legal regulatory mechanisms, and the degradation of multilateral coordination performance in legal regulation. It proposes that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)[1]The proposal for reconstructing the crime governance model based on the legal paradigm, through the analysis of cross-border telecom fraud cases (including data from 2018 to 2025), cross-textual comparison of treaty texts, and the 2025 UN/World Bank assessment of economic losses related to crime, reveals that the Lancang-Mekong countries experience overlapping judicial jurisdictions (Jurisdictional Overlap Index: 0.67), with an average delay of 187 days in the cross-border retrieval of electronic data, and asymmetric allocation of cross-border law enforcement resources (Technical Assistance Level Difference: 83%). Through the ASEAN Security Academys simulation experiment on collaborative crime governance, a joint solution has been developed, including a legal coordination module (draft text of the Lancang-Mekong Anti-Telecom Fraud Agreement), a technology integration module (blockchain-based cross-border evidence collection technology for telecom fraud), and a value balance module (evaluation model for the revenue chain in telecom fraud cases). This solution addresses the issues faced by the governance of transnational telecom fraud in the Lancang-Mekong region, reducing the average response time for cross-border law enforcement by 41% and the time required for criminal regeneration by 29% compared to the initial values.