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Pig Butchering

Alexander Clapp: Scam Gangs, 6 November 2025

Scam: Inside South-East Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds 
by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo.
Verso, 224 pp., £17.99, July, 978 1 80429 690 5
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... across the borderlands of Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos over the last decade. In Scam, Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo show that the industry depends on a second layer of deception. Most scammers have themselves been scammed. The tens of thousands of Chinese, Ethiopians, Ugandans, Filipinos, Pakistanis and others who carry out the grunt ...

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