{"id":21031,"date":"2025-12-02T02:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/age-of-the-scam-state-how-an-illicit-multibillion-dollar-industry-has-taken-root-in-south-east-asia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:37:39","slug":"age-of-the-scam-state-how-an-illicit-multibillion-dollar-industry-has-taken-root-in-south-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/age-of-the-scam-state-how-an-illicit-multibillion-dollar-industry-has-taken-root-in-south-east-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of the \u2018scam state\u2019: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the narco-state, a \u2018scam state\u2019 refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy<\/p>\n

For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent karaoke complexes, deserted gyms and dorm rooms.<\/p>\n

So came the end of KK Park, one of south-east Asia\u2019s most infamous \u201cscam centres\u201d,<\/a> press releases from Myanmar\u2019s junta declared. The facility had held tens of thousands of people, forced to relentlessly defraud people around the world. Now, it was being levelled piece by piece.<\/p>\n

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\nLike the narco-state, a \u2018scam state\u2019 refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy
\nFor days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent karaoke complexes, deserted gyms and dorm rooms.
\nSo came the end of KK Park, one of south-east Asia\u2019s most infamous \u201cscam centres\u201d, press releases from Myanmar\u2019s junta declared. The facility had held tens of thousands of people, forced to relentlessly defraud people around the world. Now, it was being levelled piece by piece. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like the narco-state, a \u2018scam state\u2019 refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite …<\/p>\n

Age of the \u2018scam state\u2019: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}