One Chain, Ten Jurisdictions
The Southeast Asian scam compounds behind APAC’s crypto-fraud losses, and the device evidence at every link

Date:  Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Time: 2:00 PM IST  |  4:30 PM SGT

A single crypto-fraud case can move a victim’s funds across ten jurisdictions in a matter of hours, routed through scam compounds operating out of Southeast Asia. For investigators, the challenge is no longer just following the money. It is proving who was behind it, working with whom, across a chain of devices, accounts and communications built to outrun a single agency’s reach.

Adam Riley and Jason Yeo walk through what the device evidence actually looks like at each link of that chain: the handsets and SIMs cycled through scam operations, the messaging and wallet activity that ties an operator to a victim, and the cross-border data that turns isolated incidents into a prosecutable network case. Grounded in field experience across APAC investigations, not vendor theory.

Who should attend

Investigators, financial crime analysts, and intelligence teams working cyber-enabled fraud, cryptocurrency tracing, or transnational organized crime cases across APAC.

What you’ll learn

• How scam compound operations structure their device and communications infrastructure across borders
• Where evidentiary gaps typically appear when cases cross jurisdictions, and how to close them
• Practical approaches to correlating device, wallet and communications data into a single investigative picture
• How regional agencies are collaborating, and where they still struggle, on cross-border digital evidence