Note: Written in February 2024 for a Southeast Asian Economics course at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. The paper examines what the UN has called a global crisis: people trafficked across Southeast Asia and forced to run online scams — the same scams that flood inboxes daily. The analytical focus is on regulatory gaps and the Cambodia-Malaysia comparison. I've kept the policy register of the original paper intact; this is not a subject that benefits from