Scam Factories: the inside story of Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds

Scam Factories is a special multimedia and podcast series by The Conversation that explores the inner workings of Southeast Asia’s brutal scam compounds. People around the globe are swindled out of billions of dollars a year in scams. The scammers, though, are sometimes victims, too. Many are often duped into jobs, then trapped in compounds and subjected to unspeakable violence.

Listen to the podcast series