Scam Inc is the economist's new 8-episode limited podcast series, exploring the multi-billion dollar, refined online fraud industry.
The series, hosted by economist Southeast Asia correspondent Su Lin Wong, is a series that will start from the collapse of rural Kansas banks to the heart of a vast, global underground economy of fraud, trafficking, corruption and money laundering. I'm following the path.
It tells the story of a predatory billion-dollar industry that emerges from the shadows and why the victims are prey to it.
“The rise of the online fraud industry is the most shocking story you've never heard of,” Wong said. “We are taking over cities and countries that spread all over the world. And now scammers use not only cryptography, but the most sophisticated AI, malware and psychological manipulation, and they are for all of us. It's coming to the
Scam Inc is the fourth limited series created for Economist Podcast+, an Economist podcast subscription.
Economist and Economist Podcast+ subscribers have exclusive access to the entire series. The first three episodes are available to non-registered users.
