Mob and mafia news Archer Davis reporting. Transnational organized crime in Southeast Asia is rising, countering the rise of scam compounds and the far reaching criminal networks behind them, Southeast Asia has become a major breeding ground for transnational criminal networks, most of them emanating from China. These organizations are operating illegal and unregulated online gambling and sophisticated scamming operations that steal an estimated $64 billion a year. Millions of victims are found around the world