The growing threat from scam centers in Southeast Asia is no longer a regional cybercrime problem, it has become a global financial and human security crisis. During a virtual press briefing, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made it clear that the United States is stepping up its international coordination to dismantle transnational fraud networks operating across the region.

Scott Schelble, Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, recently traveled to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where he met with law enforcement agencies and observed the scale of industrialized scam operations firsthand. His remarks reinforced a worrying reality: cybercrime ...