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The record on organized fraud

Kinetic works the response to a compound-based fraud economy that the world's enforcement bodies now measure in the tens of billions. The resources below are the primary record: the flagship assessments we read, cite, and build against. Curated from the issuing institutions, dated, and linked to source.

Featured source United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC · Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Primary research on the scam-compound economy.

No body has mapped the convergence of cyber-enabled fraud, underground banking, and human trafficking more rigorously than UNODC. Its regional threat analyses set the evidentiary baseline for how the industrial scam economy works, who runs it, and where the money moves. We read these first.

April 2025 · Regional threat analysis
Inflection Point: Global Implications of Scam Centres, Underground Banking and Illicit Online Marketplaces in Southeast Asia
October 2024 · Technical policy brief
Transnational Organized Crime and the Convergence of Cyber-Enabled Fraud, Underground Banking and Technological Innovation in Southeast Asia
January 2024 · Regional report
Casinos, Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and Transnational Organized Crime in East and Southeast Asia
From the October 2024 assessment
$27.4-36.5B
Est. annual revenue, SE Asia cyber-fraud networks
$18-37B
Scam losses, East & SE Asia victims, 2023
2019
First UNODC TOC mapping of the region; updated since
All UNODC threat analyses ↗
01 Intergovernmental
02 Government
03 Industry & research
On sourcing

Every figure on this page is attributed to the institution that issued it and reflects that body's most recent published assessment at time of writing. Links resolve to primary sources. This is a reading room, not an endorsement: inclusion reflects relevance to the fraud-recovery mission, not affiliation. For the live intelligence record on enforcement actions and sanctions, see Meridian Dispatch.