Rip-off Factories is a particular multimedia and podcast collection by The Dialog that explores the internal workings of Southeast Asia’s brutal rip-off compounds.

Multimedia collection

Half 1 – ‘We might hear the screams till midnight’: life inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds

Folks across the globe are swindled out of billions of {dollars} a yr in scams. The scammers, although, are typically victims, too. Many are sometimes duped into jobs, then trapped in compounds and subjected to unspeakable violence.

Half 2 – From empty fields to locked cities: the rise of a billion-dollar felony business

On-line rip-off operations are booming in Southeast Asia on account of lax rules, organised crime networks and corrupt native officers. Our authors are on the path of the highly effective, shadowy figures on the high.

Half 3 – Are they victims, perpetrators, or each? For scammers, freedom comes at a value

Escaping a rip-off compound is rife with threat. Some employees escape of compounds en masse; others leap from excessive home windows to freedom. Those that succeed then face persistent questions from authorities and their households about whether or not they’re actually a sufferer.

Podcast collection

Hearken to Rip-off Factories on The Dialog Weekly podcast.

Credit

The lead authors of the collection are Ivan Franceschini, a lecturer in Chinese language Research on the College of Melbourne; Ling Li, a PhD candidate at Ca’ Foscari College of Venice; and Mark Bo, an impartial researcher.

The podcast collection was written and produced by Gemma Ware with manufacturing help from Katie Flood and Mend Mariwany. Sound design by Michelle Macklem. Leila Goldstein was our producer in Cambodia and Halima Athumani recorded for us in Uganda. Hui Lin was our Chinese language translator. Images by Roun Ry, KDA, Halima Athumani and Ivan Franceschini.

Justin Bergman at The Dialog in Australia edited the articles within the collection and Matt Garrow labored on the multimedia components of the tales. Sequence oversight and enhancing assist from Ashlynne McGhee.