Rodrigo John Capundan Jr.

 (June 3, 1976 - January 2, 2020) was a Filipino convicted conman who ran a variety of phone scams, first out of the and then out of.

Biography
Rody was born in. He started out as a North America Region tech support worker for at a call center in,  in 1997. In 2000, he began making calls for other companies out of a call center located above a Chinese restaurant in.

In 2008, the earliest tech support scams believed to have been run by Rody were reported. In 2011, he moved to, , where he began running a new scam call center using Australian, American and Canadian expatriates, including Brook Orton, as employees.

In 2016-17, several virtual kidnapping scams were reported in and. Brook Orton, upon becoming a whistleblower, reported the way the virtual kidnapping scam operated by Rody would work:
 * 1) An employee would open a call spoofing app to disguise any one of the phones' numbers as an Australian number (usually "coming" from the 08 53  or 08 89  area codes) that was copy-pasted from a fake number generator website, then call a random number picked from social media.
 * 2) An Malaysian-Australian woman living in Kuala Lumpur by the name of Daisy Qing Ling Xiang, one of Rody's co-conspirators, would begin the call by imitating a child crying.
 * 3) One of the Australian employees would take over the call from Daisy, and then use information gathered from social media to scam the victim into paying a ransom.

In January 2018, Rody began targeting persons in and El Kadsre with his scams, but a month later in February, the YouTuber Duncan O'Coinga of, , better known on social media as ScamWatch, traced two different scams he was running (a tech support scam and the virtual kidnapping scam) back to Rodrigo's office in Kuala Lumpur. On March 3, 2018, Rody was arrested along with Daisy and several scammers in a surprise raid at the building. Rody and Daisy were extradited to Australia to stand trial for criminal offenses there, while Brook Orton was cleared of all changes (but wound up returning to his native, ) as a result of having become a whistleblower two days prior to the raid.

Rody was charged with fraud and criminal negligence and sentenced to 5 years in prison. On January 2, 2020, he committed suicide by hanging in his cell at the in, ,.