How One Prosecutor Is Cracking a $3B ‘Pig-Butchering’ Empire
Whale Hunting | Trafficked workers in Southeast-Asian compounds run crypto scams to siphon billions. Operation Shamrock is prying open the ‘pig-butchering’ machine — and fighting to free victims.
Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds
Verso Books | Based on years of field research, Scam provides a probing investigation of Southeast Asia’s online scam industry, told through the voices of survivors.
Teen Jumped Out a Window to Escape Cambodia’s Brutal Scam Farms
Reuters | Lured to Cambodia and forced to defraud strangers online, a Thai teenager said he barely survived after jumping from an eighth-floor window to escape a prison-like compound.
Cambodia: Government allows human rights abuses to flourish in scam compounds
Amnesty International | The Cambodian government is ignoring abuses carried out by criminal gangs in more than 50 scam compounds across the country.
Slavery, Human Trafficking and Torture in Cambodia Scam Compounds
Amnesty International | A detailed report documenting the alarming human rights crisis in Cambodia, identifying at least 53 scam compounds where rights abuses have taken place.
Tricked, tortured, finally freed: Inside a Burmese scam farm
The Times | Trafficked by a Chinese crime gang, Mustapha Momoh was held in southeast Asia — one of 375,000 similar people forced to con westerners out of their life savings.
India and Thailand Cooperate to Fight Cybercrime and Human Trafficking
VARINDIA | India and Thailand held talks to address growing concerns around cross-border cybercrime, online scam networks, and human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
