We publish missing persons notices for the United States and expose the fraud networks operating across Southeast Asia — the scams that empty life savings, and the fake job offers that lure people into forced criminality.
Browse Missing Persons Learn the ScamsReproduced from the FBI's public Kidnappings & Missing Persons listings and checked against the official case pages. Select a case for full details, the official source, and how to submit a tip.
Across parts of Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines, industrial-scale compounds run investment, romance and impersonation scams against victims in the United States and around the world. The operations are staffed in large part by trafficking victims — people recruited with fake job offers, stripped of their passports, and forced to scam under coercion.
Our anti-scam section documents the main playbooks — pig-butchering investment fraud, fake job recruitment, task scams, impersonation — with the warning signs that identify each one, and the official channels for reporting them.
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Disclaimer: The Homeward Initiative is an independent, volunteer-run public information project. It is not a law-enforcement agency, is not affiliated with the FBI, NamUs, NCMEC or any government body, and does not solicit or accept donations or fees of any kind. Missing-person information is reproduced from official public listings and reporting families; in any conflict, official law-enforcement publications prevail.
Photography: candle images by Nick Hawkins, Rebecca Peterson-Hall and Ai Nhan; Bangkok by Waranont Joe; Phnom Penh by Norbert Braun; US Capitol by Caleb Fisher — via Unsplash. Case photographs: FBI public listings.
