Franceschini, Ivan, Ling Li, and Mark Bo. 2025. Scam
Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds. New York: Verso Books
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24228772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Florence (0000-0002-7004-9120) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 146 |
| Pages | 83-84 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives chinoises (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1021-9013 • E-ISSN: 2070-3449 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/16w6h |
| OpenAlex | W7219735393 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In this pathbreaking volume, the authors provide an at once empirically very well-informed, theoretically robust, and chilling account of the emergence and development of the scam industry in Southeast Asia and of its devastating effects on people’s lives.The volume is based on long-term fieldwork in Southeast Asia, mostly in Cambodia, and on in-depth interviews with 96 survivors of scam compounds in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos between 2022 and 2024. Seventy of these survivors came from Chin...
Cybercrime · online fraud · Organized crime · Southeast asia · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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