The message from Alice was blunt: “I don’t trust you. You are one of them, right? You all just want to sell me like some animal.”

Alice’s hostile response wasn’t fully shocking to Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo, the co-authors of “Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds” (Verso), out July 8. “Like the dozens of other survivors we met in the following months,” they write, “her harrowing experience had left her unable to trust anyone.”

The previous half-decade has seen a nefarious net of cyber-scam operations arrange store throughout Southeast Asia, luring (and trapping) staff from throughout the globe focusing on victims on each nook of the planet. Getty Images

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