Scammers are going hi-tech. They are lurking in social media networks, developing malware and offering fake hotspots. They use complex psychology to get you hooked, get you to trust them, and finally, to reveal your passwords.

In India, cyber criminals are using voice-cloning to make fake phone calls from loved ones. In Malaysia, data theft is becoming a burgeoning underground economy. And in China, cyber criminals are taking advantage of the ubiquity of WeChat to send malware disguised as benign files.

Scamming is a global phenomenon, and this three-part series investigates the ways in which we may all fall victim.