Cezary Podkul

Inside the world’s scam capital, where enslaved workers are forced to defraud Americans online

Five young men thought they were going to Cambodia to intern at a casino. Instead they say they became enslaved in one of the world’s most sophisticated fraud networks, an industry that has swindled billions of dollars from Americans and turned Southeast Asia into the online scam capital of the world. Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs, hundreds of thousands of people like them from China, Southeast Asia and other countries across the world have been coerced into engaging in scams such...