Cyber Scammers Trapped in 'Modern Slavery': How SE Asia Operations Exploit Engineers

In the digital corridors of Southeast Asia, a cybercrime operation has collapsed the boundary between perpetrator and victim — trapping skilled engineers in modern slavery while deploying their expertise to defraud billions from people around the world. These are not willing criminals but coerced laborers, held in compounds, their documents seized, their families threatened, their technical gifts conscripted into a machinery of harm. The case, documented by investigative journalist Andy Greenberg, forces a reckoning with how transnational crime now exploits both human vulnerability and human s