In the coastal Cambodian province of Preah Sihanouk, the skyline is dominated by fortified high-rises surrounded with barbed wire. These serve as the engine room for a global criminal industry estimated to be worth between  $50 and $75 billion . It cost U.S. citizens more than $20 billion  in the last year alone. These are not factories, but digital compounds across Cambodia, where an  estimated 100,000  victims of debt bondage are forced to execute “ pig butchering ” and cryptocurrency scams under the aegis of local protection. This scam-industrial complex now generates revenue equivalent to  nearly half of Cambodia’s legitimate GDP . It is run by human trafficking victims, lured by fraudulent job ads and sold between compounds for prices ranging between $5,000 and $10,000. The rise of these enclaves was neither accidental nor organic; it was the result of a swift and cynical economic pivot.…