Scam Factories is a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds. It accompanies a series of articles on The Conversation. Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to work in these scam compounds. Many were trafficked there and then forced into criminality by defrauding people around the world

Scam Factories is a special multimedia and podcast series by The Conversation that explores the inner workings of Southeast Asia’s brutal scam compounds. Multimedia series Part 1 – ‘We could hear the screams until midnight’: life inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds People around the globe are swindled out of billions of dollars a year

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