About this episode

The episode explores the rise of billion-dollar scam compounds in Southeast Asia and the human trafficking behind them.

Southeast Asia's scam compounds have grown into billion-dollar criminal empires. Nathan Southern and Lindsay Kennedy bring us in from Out of the Loop here! Welcome to what we’re calling our “Out of the Loop” episodes, where we dig a little deeper into fascinating current events that may only register as a blip on the media’s news cycle and have conversations with the people who find themselves immersed in them. Investigative journalists Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy are here to help us understand what Southeast Asia's scam compounds are, how they've built criminal empires worth billions on the backs of trafficked humans, and how we can fight back against them. Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1360 On This Episode of Out of the Loop: What are scam compounds? What started as online boiler rooms has mutated into multinational criminal empires — CEOs, crypto treasuries, diplomatic cover, billions laundered. As Jordan quipped, it's LinkedIn with torture rooms — and now fighter jets are literally bombing the compounds. Underneath it all is human trafficking. Victims are lured by fake job ads, stripped of their passports, and forced to…

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Harbinger

Guests: Nathan Southern, Lindsay Kennedy

Topics covered

• scam compounds
• human trafficking
• criminal empires
• investigative journalism
• current events

Keywords

• scam compounds
• human trafficking
• criminal empires
• investigative journalism
• Southeast Asia

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Southeast Asia

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