JAKARTA: Crime syndicates may be setting up a scam centre in Asia's youngest nation, East Timor, the United Nations said on Thursday (Sep 11), as a multibillion-dollar online fraud industry spreads across Southeast Asia . The industry involves sprawling compounds housing tens of thousands of workers, many of them trafficked, who are forced to scam victims around the world. Cyber scam operators in Cambodia and Myanmar alone have stolen some US$10 billion from American citizens in the last year,