About the Book: Scamlands: Inside The Asian Empire Of Fraud That Preys On The
World
Snigdha Poonams Scamlands takes you to parts of the world where a scamster is
born every minute. Beginning from the rural heartland of eastern India, where
she grew up and ending in a shining city by the South China Sea, Poonam follows
the networks of deceit across an invisible empire that thrives on inequality,
technological change and the erosion of trust. It is a world where fraud is at
once a route to upward mobility, an act of revenge against the privileged and
uncaring, and a blatant disregard for the