Southeast Asia Scam Centers Continue to Grow Despite Crackdowns

Imagine some bad people in Southeast Asia built big places like compounds to trick others.

They trick people all over the world into sending them money by pretending to be someone else or offering fake jobs.

Inside these places, many workers are forced to do the tricking for long hours and can't leave.

They even take their passports away!

Sometimes, police try to stop these bad people and rescue the workers.

But there are so many of these tricking places, and the main people in charge are hard to catch.

So, even when police close one down, others keep popping up.

It's like playing a game of whack-a-mole, and the tricksters keep finding new ways to fool people, costing them billions of dollars.