Structural Limits of Financial Controls in Scam-Compound Economies examines why financial enforcement and blockchain-based interventions have produced limited structural impact against scam-compound operations, despite increased regulatory attention and investigative capability. The publication examines that scam economies are liquidity-driven systems designed around continuous financial throughput, not isolated transactions. Treating money as a downstream by-product of crime rather than as the organising logic of these systems obscures how laundering architectures absorb disruption while preserving operational control.

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Drawing on observed laundering practices across scam-linked economies, the analysis shows how pooled funds, rapid circulation, and reliance on replaceable intermediaries systematically weaken attribution and tracing. Transaction-centric controls tend to concentrate enforcement at visible endpoints while insulating coordination and decision-making structures upstream. The publication therefore reframes financial intervention toward capacity reduction—targeting dependency, reliability, and scale—rather than idealised transaction reconstruction, offering a more realistic basis for constraining scam-compound resilience.