Scam

Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds

By: Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li, Mark Bo

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eBook | 8 July 2025

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Running the gamut from the infamous 'pig butchering' romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region's online scam industry. Revealed are the appalling working conditions - akin to modern slavery - in the hundreds of prisonlike compounds that have mushroomed throughout multiple countries. The result is a shocking expos? of victims forced to be perpetrators, a tragic modern tale.