Another: Pig Butchering scams - London Review of Books

This article is a review of "Scam: Inside South-East Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo.
The London Review of Books is a paywall site, but they allow you a limited number of free views per month. (If you like this article I'd suggest you print it as a PDF from your browser).
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n20/alexander-clapp/pig-butchering