Scam Inc 3: The bottom line

骗局公司3:底线

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2025-02-08

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How do you run a scam operation?  Perks, recruitment, outsourcing and a monthly landscaping budget—this is Scam Inc. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economist Podcasts+. If you’re already a subscriber to The Economist, you have full access to all our shows as part of your subscription. For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The Economist previously on Scam Inc.

  • So I search on Facebook.

  • Then there I saw a post like hiring CSR agent bound to Thailand.

  • We enter the gate and inside the gate you see it's a whole town.

  • I said to him, what do you mean I'm going to scam people?

  • Then he said, no, you need to convince people and to invest into crypto.

  • The place was run by Chinese.

  • The bosses were Chinese.

  • Rita, Gavesh, Jalil and Sarah were all trafficked to scam centers in the border regions of Myanmar.

  • Fraud compounds in this area had been rapidly expanding.

  • Whoever scammed Shane Haines, the CEO of that bank in Kansas,

  • may even have been working out of a compound here or somewhere like it.

  • But Myanmar isn't Kansas.

  • There's a brutal civil war going on, and I couldn't just show up and expect a friendly welcome.