01956nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801200007608200160019610000210021224500940023326000480032730000250037536500080040052010730040865000160148165000160149765000170151370000200153094200090155099900170155995201380157620261001133505.0261001b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780670095544  a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.b: B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhic: 3477d: 25/09/2026  a364.168 POO  aPoonam, Snigdha.  aScamlandsb: Inside the Asian empire of fraud that preys on the world.c/ Snigdha Poonam.  a, Gurugramb: Penguin Random Housec, 2025.  axxii, 316p.c: 24cm.  b559  aSnigdha Poonam’s 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 pain of others.

A gripping account of the people and forces behind the scams reshaping societies and economies in India, Asia and beyond, this book describes places where corruption is not just an abuse of power but also an expression of agency and of ingenuity. It uncovers what it means for the social order, in India and elsewhere, when deception becomes a way of life. When fraud triumphs over trust, none of us anywhere in the world will escape its armies of foot soldiers and scam lords. We may all become unwilling citizens of this dark empire.  aCyber Crime  aCyber Fraud  aOnline Scams  aSnigdha Poonam.  cBOOK  c70808d70808  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2026-10-01eRaghav Books Pvt. Ptd.g559.00l0o364.168 POOp31776r2026-10-01 13:35:24w2026-10-01yBOOK