Over 200,000 scam workers trapped in Cambodia's fortified compounds have been released following government raids, exposing a $20 billion annual fraud industry targeting Americans. This investigation follows Schweib, a 24-year-old Ugandan recruited via TikTok with promises of $1,000/month work, who discovered he'd been trafficked into a sophisticated criminal enterprise with torture chambers and impossible debt. How recruitment networks turn desperate migrants into forced scammers reveals the global scale of organized cybercrime. Scam syndicates recruit English-speaking Africans through social media with fake job ads offering $800-$1,200 monthly salaries—five to eight times what workers can earn at home, exploiting economic desperation and lack of job verification. Scam compounds operate as structured corporations with developers, receptionists, and 'killers' in hierarchy, using scripted romance and task-based schemes to defraud victims of thousands before moving targets up the chain to extract final large deposits. Workers face constant surveillance, isolation rooms for torture, phone monitoring, arbitrary fines for minor infractions, and calculated debt contracts forcing them to choose between compliance and escape into hostile foreign countries with no resources. The scam industry generated profits equivalent to half of Cambodia's GDP in 2024, with infrastructure protected by government-connected landlords, drivers, security guards, and police tipoffs sustaining the criminal ecosystem.