Can Philippines’ new anti-Pogo playbook rein in fast-moving scam hubs?

Philippine authorities have introduced a new national playbook for raiding and prosecuting online scam centres, as criminal networks once tied to the country’s offshore gaming industry splinter into smaller and harder-to-detect operations.The rules aim to close gaps exposed during earlier raids, when agencies struggled to coordinate evidence, freeze assets, identify trafficking victims and build cases against operators who often left few physical traces.Analysts and former officials said the bigger test, however, would be whether the new playbook could keep pace with criminal networks already moving from large Pogo compounds into more elusive operations.