Southeast Asia

Inside the Scam Factory: One Family's Fight for Freedom

In 2024, a young man named Max was lured from the Philippines to a remote scam camp in Myanmar with promises of a high-paying casino job. Instead, he found himself trapped in a modern slavery operation run by international criminal syndicates. The Scam Factory podcast, hosted by Denise Chan, documents his ordeal and his sister Charlie's desperate efforts to secure his release.

Scam Factory: Inside Southeast Asia's Forced Fraud Compounds

Wondery's "Scam Factory" podcast, hosted by Denise Chan, investigates Southeast Asia's hidden fraud compounds where victims are trafficked, imprisoned, and forced to perpetrate global online scams under threat of violence.