Paper
Scam Centres Are Not Fraud. They Are Infrastructure.
Scam centres persist not because enforcement fails, but because disruption never reaches the real choke points: labour control, payment rails, and jurisdictional protection.
Tag
distributed coercion
7 items across the journal, including 6 research pages and 1 case.
Research
Framework
FCPI Scoring Model for Scam Ecosystems
A structured application of the Finality Choke Point Index to scam-centre ecosystems, identifying where control over coercive outcomes actually sits across seven dimensions.
Paper
Cheap Coercion Changes Power Before It Changes Law
By the time a coercive system has a settled regulatory label, the underlying power shift has often already happened. Why institutions systematically miss the transition.
Framework
What Is Distributed Coercion?
Distributed coercion describes a condition in which the ability to intimidate, compel, disrupt, or physically harm others becomes modular, networked, and purchasable — and why existing security frameworks systematically under-read the shift.
Paper
Why the Gulf Is an Early Theater for Distributed Coercion Risk
The Gulf combines high-value targets, dense infrastructure exposure, maritime vulnerability, and strong incentives for adversaries to operate at distance. It is a place where cheap coercion can produce expensive consequences.
Paper
From Cybercrime to Platform-Enabled Crime
The language of cybercrime often misses the way criminal activity now operates through mainstream commercial infrastructure rather than outside it.
Case Library
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Scam Centres: Eastern Europe vs Southeast Asia
A structural comparison of two scam centre models — compound coercion in Southeast Asia and office coercion in Eastern Europe — through the FCPI framework.