Scam center

A scam center, fraud factory, fraud park, scam factory, scam compound, scam hub, scam park, fraud center, fraud compound, or fraud hub is a collection of large fraudulent organizations usually involved in human trafficking operations, generally found in Southeast Asia and usually operated by a criminal gang. Scam center operators lure foreign nationals to scam hubs, where they are forced into modern slavery, to scam internet users around the world into fraudulently buying cryptocurrencies, running scam-through-romance frauds (pig butchering scam), digital arrest scam (most common in India), or withdrawing cash via social media and online dating apps. Trafficked victims' passports are confiscated, and they are threatened with organ harvesting and forced prostitution if they do not perform well. Scam center operations proliferated in Cambodia , Laos, Myanmar , and other countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, and were further aided by the civil war in Myanmar.