[hungryforcodes]

I don't see in any country in SEA -- and I live out here -- how you could hide 100K people in concertation camps to do high tech scamming.

There is a comment above about someone's Laotian wife working hard conditions doing these scams because it pays much better than local work -- this seems much more convincing.

Even the issue with the Vietnamese casino workers was only 40 people -- though not to minimize it's importance.

[deadbeeves]

We're talking about hundreds of thousands across several countries, not in a single facility. If you have 50 prisoners per building, you only need 4000 buildings like that to get to 200k. This could be happening anywhere, even in large cities. You don't need huge infrastructure per location to do this, though it does take some logistics to keep it up. Running a clandestine prison in the middle of a city is not trivial, but certainly not impossible to keep under wraps. I'm surprised it's profitable, though.

[csomar]

For Laos and Cambodia you do. They have small populations and most cities don’t have any large buildings at all. I can understand this happening in remote areas in these countries where there are no locals and no local law enforcement. But to be happening in hundreds pf thousands scale at these small cities is not reasonable.