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

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

➡️ View the full interactive version of this article here. In 2024, Ivan, Ling, Mark, and others co-founded EOS Collective, a non-profit organisation dedicated to investigating the dynamics of the online scam industry and the criminal networks behind it, and supporting survivors of forced criminality in these operations.Digital Storytelling Team does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that wo…

Huione Guarantee darknet marketplace, and it's scammers

If you’ve heard the term pig butchering and assumed it was niche, think again. This is not just some fringe online scam—it’s a massive, transnational, industrial operation with billions of dollars in play, and the New York Times just pulled the curtain back.The March 23 investigation details how scam factories in Southeast Asia—specifically those tied to Huione Guarantee, a rebranded version of a notorious Cambodia-based darknet marketplace—oper…

Sequestered in scam factories, more than 300,000 individuals are modern slaves of cybercriminal networks Source