Young couple Micah and Ava apply for what they think is a dream job in Cambodia. Ava arrives first and realises it’s in fact a scamming factory, targeting people overseas like you and me. She warns Micah not to come, but he decides to follow her in – and hopefully get them both out.

PLUS: We speak to leading experts on the highly sophisticated recruitment strategies employed to trick hundreds of thousands of people like Micah and Ava into this exploding criminal industry.

Trapped with Ava in a heavily guarded compound, Micah learns that escaping won’t be as easy as he thought. He forms a daring plan, but when he sees other workers brutally punished and beaten, knows he’s taking a major risk. Even still, he acts.

PLUS: We fly to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to follow Micah’s footsteps and see for ourselves that scam factories are operating out in the open, and unchecked.

Conditions in the compound worsen as the scammers are forced to extract more money from victims. An emotional encounter with a victim leaves Ava shaken and depressed. Micah’s escape plan backfires terribly: he’s been caught.

PLUS: we speak to an American who lost his life savings, and break down just how “pig butchering” scams work – and why they’re so effective.

Micah is sold to another scam center, bigger and more brutal than the last. Tasers. Darkrooms. So-called “suicides,” and co-workers who simply disappear. He’s close to giving up,when he stumbles upon a person on the internet, who might be his last hope of escape.

PLUS: We ask transnational crime expert - and show producer - Jacob “Jake” Sims (anAmerican) why governments in Southeast Asia aren’t doing much to stop forced scamming.

Micah is sold to another scam center, bigger and more brutal than the last. Tasers. Darkrooms. So-called “suicides,” and co-workers who simply disappear. He’s close to giving up,when he stumbles upon a person on the internet, who might be his last hope of escape.

PLUS: We ask transnational crime expert - and show producer - Jacob “Jake” Sims (anAmerican) why governments in Southeast Asia aren’t doing much to stop forced scamming.

Micah is sold to another scam center, bigger and more brutal than the last. Tasers. Darkrooms. So-called “suicides,” and co-workers who simply disappear. He’s close to giving up,when he stumbles upon a person on the internet, who might be his last hope of escape.

PLUS: We ask transnational crime expert - and show producer - Jacob “Jake” Sims (anAmerican) why governments in Southeast Asia aren’t doing much to stop forced scamming.