Trafficked, beaten and raped: raids reveal scale of abuse of women in Asia’s cyberscam centres ^8.5%

The Guardian - By Fiona Kelliher - 6/29/2026, 4:00 AM

Negativity Bias 14% - Representativeness Heuristic 12.5% - Availability Heuristic 12.3%

Late one evening in October 2023, Sarah* felt labour pains starting. It was 11pm, but at the cyberscam compound inside Laos’ Golden Triangle, workers were logging on for a long night shift, scamming Americans online. Every night, workers sat at their computers until the early hours, building fake profiles of glamorous, jet-setting women... more