Not all victims of scam compounds are unwilling —and that’s what makes the system so hard to dismantle.
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Framing returnees as potential criminals is politically convenient but counterproductive. It leads to victims being reluctant to go to authorities to ask for help.
Thousands of people from Indonesia, China and Africa are waiting for help to return home, but the process has been slow and many are increasingly desperate.
Anthropologist Michael Rose speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how a official sounded the alarm about organised crime in Timor-Leste.
A nationwide crackdown in July led to 3,000 arrests. But large scam operators seem to have been left untouched.
Those who escape scam compounds face persistent questions from authorities and their families about whether they are truly a victim.
Scamming is big business in Southeast Asia, on an almost unstoppable rise.
Life inside the huge scam factories across Southeast Asia using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
The final part of our Scam Factories podcast series, tracks how people escape from Southeast Asia’s brutal scamming compounds.
The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
The first episode of Scam Factories, a three part podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
People around the world have lost billions of dollars to scams. But the scammers are often victims, too. We’re taking you inside their world.
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Lecturer, Chinese Studies, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate in Technology Facilitated Modern Slavery, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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The Conversation
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Lecturer in Asian Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Adjuct Lecturer, Adelaide University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration & Director of the Global Migration Lab, University of Toronto