Every day that he was locked up in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, George thought about how to get out. "We looked for means of escaping, but it was hard," he said. Scam Factories is a podcast series taking you inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds. It accompanies a <a href="https://theconversation.com/scam-factories-the-inside-story-of-southeast-asias-brutal-fraud-compounds-250448" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">series of multimedia articles</a> on The Conversation.In our third and final episode, Great Escapes, we find out the different ways survivors manage to escape, what it takes for them to get home, and what is being done to clamp down on the industry. The podcast series was written and produced by Gemma Ware with production assistance from Katie Flood and Mend Mariwany. Sound design by Michelle Macklem. Leila Goldstein was our producer in Cambodia and Halima Athumani recorded for us in Uganda. Hui Lin helped us with Chinese translation. Editing help from Justin Bergman and Ashlynee McGhee. <ul><li><a href="https://scam-factories-getting-out.netlify.app/">Getting out of Southeast Asia's scam factories</a></li><li><a href="https://scam-factories-rise-of-an-industry.netlify.app/">From empty fields to locked cities: the rise of a billion-dollar criminal industry</a></li><li><a href="https://scam-factories-life-inside.netlify.app/">‘We could hear the screams until midnight’: life inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds</a></li></ul>

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