 Jake says many of these compounds are built around casinos, and when COVID hit, the revenue from gambling dried up. So he says their owners diversified into online and telephone fraud, whether that be impersonating Chinese police or romance and cryptocurrency scams. And the money generated by these scams is huge. Some recent research that I was a part of came up with an estimate that between Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, that the number could be as high as $60 billion a year.